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At 03:24 PM 4/4/99 +0200, Chris Lilley wrote: > But it need not autodetect, in fact, autodetection >is a bad thing. I was not suggesting autodetection, quite the converse. > >Rather, in the absence of an explicit MIME charset parameter, it should >use the encoding declaration. If there is none, then the document is in >UTF-8 or UTF-16 and the XML spec tells you how to determine which. [1]. Just a terminology thing; I think when we say autodetection, we are talking about using the combination of the first few bytes and the encoding declaration, as described in app. F of the XML spec. I think (and I thought Chris thought) that this is a *good* and necessary thing, if only because lots of XML documents are read in other ways than via http, and because lots of times the web server simply doesn't/can't know about the internal arrangements of some XML resource. -Tim 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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