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Re: Text/xml with omitted charset parameter

• From: David Brownell <david-b@p...>
• To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>, xml-dev@l...
• Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 11:56:20 -0700

> 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? 

Every MIME text/* type defaults to ASCII, period.
Using another encoding means needing "charset=...".

HTTP isn't exactly MIME, and that's the root cause of
all the confusion here.  Someone made HTML/HTTP
use MIME but change that default to ISO-8859-1.
Caused LOTS of confusion, such as this very discussion.

Think of HTML/HTTP as the only broken thing, and
then everything is consistent and makes sense.

- Dave

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    • From: MURATA Makoto <EB2M-MRT@a...>
  • Re: Text/xml with omitted charset parameter
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