- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 20:27:05 +0200
- To: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- CC: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, www-international@w3.org, phoffman@imc.org
John Cowan wrote: > > Bjoern Hoehrmann scripsit: > > > RFC 2871 registers all UTF-16 charsets (UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE and > > UTF-16) as not suitable for use in MIME content types under the > > "text" top-level type. Why? > > Because a MIME processor, when encountering something of type text/*, > is allowed to assume that any 0x0A byte means "LF" and any 0x0D byte means "CR", > and to transmute them to some other kind of line ending. UTF-16 > of whatever flavor violates this rule. And thus, xml should never be served as text/xml .... -- Chris
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