- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 17:48:00 -0800
- To: www-tag@w3.org
RFC 3023 recommends supplying a charset header for
both application/xml and text/xml. I think the TAG and
W3C should take a slightly different stand. I'm fine
with text/xml, except for
(a) I'd strengthen it to MUST, since the default (US-ASCII)
is almost certainly always wrong, and
(b) I'd give serious consideration to deprecating text/xml
and text/*+xml
As regards application/xml, application/*+xml, I think 3023
is probably wrong and we should take stand that the server
SHOULD NOT send a charset header because
(a) there's no transcoding, so the in-band signaling
mechanisms of XML work just fine, and so
(b) the recipient will have a much higher chance in almost
every case than the server of getting the encoding
right.
-Tim
Received on Monday, 4 February 2002 20:48:48 UTC