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John Cowan wrote: > Chris Lilley scripsit: > > 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. 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. -- Chris 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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