- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:56:14 +0200
- To: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Cc: ietf-xml-mime@imc.org, WWW-Tag <www-tag@w3.org>
* John Cowan wrote: >> [A]nd even if they did, this would cause interoperability >> problems with file systems and protocols which do not provide such >> means. If you transfer the document using FTP to your web server the >> information is lost and the document will break. > >No worse than today's situation, and FTP could be enhanced or abandoned >in favor of HTTP PUT. RFC 1342 is eleven years old and I would still see replies containing Bj<garbage>rn H<garbage>hrmann if I made use of its features. >*You* are suggesting that every text file format that has ever existed -- >innumerable assembly languages, C, C++, Java, Fortran, Lisp, Scheme, Prolog, >Perl, Python, Smalltalk, awk, sed, ... sh, csh, bash, zsh, ... mail archives, >news archives, ... Tex, LaTex, nroff/troff, ... -- be revised to find someplace >to stuff a charset indication, and then that every one of the billions of >documents in each of those formats be changed to carry that information. No. I said that I consider formats that leave implementations to guess how to process instances of the format broken as designed. I did not suggest to fix them. And by the way, some formats you mention are binary and not text formats and could thus not make use of file system encoding information.
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