Re: Validator says my ISO-8859-1 page is not US-ASCII from Jan Egil Kristiansen on 2003-09-05 (www-validator@w3.org from September 2003)

From: Jan Egil Kristiansen <janegil@landsbank.fo>
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 14:49:59 +0100
To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Message-Id: <5.2.1.1.0.20030905144435.034016c0@landsbank.tokni.fo>

At 14.42 05-09-2003, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
>Your document is delivered as text/xml with no charset parameter;
>implementations of the text/xml MIME type must assume us-ascii in
>this case regardless of what the XML declaration might say. 

I believe ISO-8859-1 is the default encoding for all text/* MIME types tranmitted trough HTTP? Sorry, I don't have the link to the RFC in question.

(Even though UTF-8 is the default for XML in general.)

Received on Friday, 5 September 2003 09:59:15 UTC