Re: Beta: Charset attribute

On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Terje Bless wrote:

> Einar Westermann <einar.westermann@online.no> wrote:
>
> >I see. So the validator in fact evaluates my user agent's capabilities
> >as well, while offering file validation. [...] Or is this charset
> >attribute or parameter something the validator needs but may not get
> >when I upload?
>
> That's exactly it. Without information about the character encoding it's
> impossible to validate the file.

Stupid question: Would it be possible to standardise a
Content-Type: text/whatever-it-says-dude
where the server explicitly hands over encoding assignation
to the document and its meta tags?

Such a Content-Type: would work well if used for browser uploads.

L.

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