Re: Document without charset

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

> Apparently the validator uses UTF-8 as the implied default.
> 
> The choice is impractical

I can't recall RFC number from the top of my head, but HTTP protocol 
assumes ISO-8859-1 for all text/* media types as a default. So it is no 
"impractical", it is clearly bug.

That's why text/xml was superseded by application/xml where is no such 
default assumed. If there were no charset parameter, ISO-8859-1 should 
be assumed from HTTP point of view, but XML document without XML 
declaration assumes UTF-8 or UTF-16. However HTTP takes precedence and 
you are decoding XML content with a wrong encoding assumption. Not good. 
It sounds silly to serve XML with other content type then text/*, but 
legacy is legacy :-(

				Jirka

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