- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:05:52 -0500
- To: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>, Michel Suignard <michelsu@windows.microsoft.com>
- Cc: public-iri@w3.org, uri@w3.org
At 21:46 04/03/21 -0500, John Cowan wrote: >This isn't really apt, because the charset parameter in MIME types tells >how to translate an entity body (which is made of bytes) into a character >stream. URIs/IRIs are already a character stream, so the question doesn't >arise. Sorry, but that's wrong. URIs are indeed sequences of characters, but they stand for sequences of octets. While in many cases, this distinction isn't easy to see, the data: scheme provides a good example. If you for example write: data:image/gif,.... and assume you don't use base64, then you may have the character '3' in tha data, but that's not a '3' in the image, that's just the octet 0x33 in the data for the image. Regards, Martin.
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