- From: François Yergeau <francois@yergeau.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 14:39:38 -0400
- To: ietf-xml-mime@imc.org
- Cc: WWW-Tag <www-tag@w3.org>
John Cowan a écrit : > Rather than having thousands of ad hoc mechanisms for encoding declarations > in each of the thousands of text formats now extant, But Makoto is precisely suggesting that there should be a generic mechanism, usable with (almost) all formats. Since most extant formats do not have a mechanism (viz. programming languages) they could all introduce the same. > file systems should have > a convenient mechanism for recording the encoding of each file, Yes, file systems, and databases and all kinds of repositories, and all the connections between these (NFS, SMB, FTP, TFTP, DB connectivity protocols, etc.), all suitably and robustly configured and aware of each other, so that the charset parameter never gets dropped on the floor. Would work in principle but it looks like Utopia. -- François
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