Re: Requesting a revision of RFC3023

* John Cowan wrote:
>Bjoern Hoehrmann scripsit:
>
>> Depends on the format. Formats should provide means to specify
>> the encoding, if they do not they are BAD, broken as designed.
>
>Plain text is broken as designed?  Programming languages are broken
>as designed?

If a processor is required to guess how to process instances of a
format, the format is clearly broken as designed, yes.

Received on Friday, 19 September 2003 09:42:18 UTC