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Chris Lilley scripsit: > Okay. But does RFC 2376 conflict with the XML 1.0 Recommendation? The Recommendation basically says "We yield to the RFC once it is published". > > When the charset parameter is not specified, it is assumed as US-ASCII. > > Wow. So, what this RFC says is that, when used in email and on HTTP, the > encoding declaration is *always ignored*. Unfortunately this is a side effect of the rules for the media type "text/*", which says that the default value of "charset" is always US-ASCII. The alternative is to use "application/xml", which has no such obnoxious rule. -- John Cowan cowan@c... e'osai ko sarji la lojban. xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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