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Re: Text/xml with omitted charset parameter

• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 08:36:20 -0400

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? 
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