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At 5:27 PM +0900 10/28/01, MURATA Makoto wrote: >No, there are absolutely no chances for such a change. Such changes >have been tried and failed. MIME people will never agree to change >the default. > >So many e-mail programs use the charset parameter to display MIME entities >labelled as text/*. If the charset parameter is absent, such programs will >assume that the MIME entity is us-ascii. This change will invaliate such >programs. > So is it the case, then, that the default for everything in the text/* tree must be ASCII or 8859-1? It's not possible for the subtype text/xml to provide a different default than the type text? -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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