Re: Distributing 16-bit HTML/XML source files?

On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Neil St.Laurent wrote:

> What are the relevant standards on serving native 16bit unicode source files?
> 
> I'm assuming network byte ordering, but what is the correct MIME 
> type?

For HTML, it would be:

text/html; charset=ISO-10646-UCS-2

> Is there an accepted extension for unicode files? We just append ".u" 
> to everything, ex. index.html.u

Not that I know of, and it doesn't really matter. File extension to MIME
type mapping is a local issue. The sent Content-Type is the only thing
that actually matters. 

-- 
Benjamin Franz

Received on Friday, 19 December 1997 16:59:53 UTC