> So in practice, I could see the following solutions for
> Accept-Charset:
>
> - Send UTF-8 if you can accept it, and nothing else.
>
> - Send UTF-8 and/or a careful selection of class (2)
> "charset"s.
This was the conclusion that we had arrived at. And we actually inquired
about the possibility of sending "Accept-Charset=UTF8,*" prior to this
tread starting.
We would still very much like to see a solution which allows us to
indicate that we both handle, and **prefer** a particular charset (eg:
UTF8). We do not wish to be in the situation where we need to enumerate
all charsets, or cause a round-trip to the server. We are open to any
solutions which fulfill these two requirements; currently using
"Accept-Charset=encoding, encoding,*" would seem to be the most elegent.
I have not heard any convincing reasons as to why we would not want to
allow this, except that it is not in the current draft?
Jim
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