• From: MURATA Makoto <EB2M-MRT@a...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 23:02:00 +0900

Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:

> Preferably without.

Notepad of Windows 2000 always attaches the Unicode signature.

Bjoern proposed that (1) no changes to MIME or HTTP, (2) "XML can just go and mandate UTF-8".  
I think that (2) is inconsistent with (1).  (By the way, strictly speaking, HTTP is 
not MIME but MIME-like.)   

Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:

>  And who cares about consistency? 

IETF (especially the IESG, which endorses RFCs) does.

Cheers,

Makoto

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