- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 02:24:06 +0200
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- CC: www-international@w3.org
On Wednesday, April 30, 2003, 1:58:55 AM, Bjoern wrote: BH> * Chris Lilley wrote: >>It is in that specification that the precedence is defined (and other >>unfortunate things, such as a mandatory default of US-ASCII when no >>charset is provided in the HTTP, regardless of what the XML encoding >>declaration says). >> >>This is very bad. As a member of the TAG I find this very broken, >>architecturally speaking. Tim Bray agrees, and I have proposed wording >>in the architecture document that spells this out. BH> Many (if not most) XML processor toolkits don't even implement the BH> US-ASCII default for text/plain... This is also true. And if someone is handling an xml media type as text/plain, then encoding is the least of their worries. -- Chris mailto:chris@w3.org
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