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> So, in consequence: example file such as the Chinese XML examples at > http://xml.ascc.net/xml/test/index.html (where each example > is available in UTF-8, Big5 and GB2312, all correctly labelled in the XML encoding > declaration) are now sets of invalid XML files which are required to > produce a critical error because of the invalid byte sequences in what > is now described as a US-ASCII file? > > This is deeply counterproductive, and could have been avoided. No. Servers should be configured to label the document correctly. The HTTP 1.1 specification clearly states that any document using an encoding other than ISO 8859-1 should have a correct, corresponding charset parameter. As such, for the documents above, using HTTP, you would have a protocol error. 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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