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At 02:28 PM 26/10/01 +1000, Rick Jelliffe wrote: > From: "Bjoern Hoehrmann" <derhoermi@g...> > >> So, who tells me I >> am wrong and text/xml documents without charset parameter may still be >> UTF-8 encoded (and use non-ASCII characters)? ... > >The only ways out of encoding hell are: Actually, XML *improves* the situation. To quote Larry Wall, "An XML document knows what encoding it's in". So, given the (not uncommon) scenario of mime-header breakage, you can often recover. A decent XML processor, given a stream of bytes and no other information, almost always does the right thing. Per IETF dogma, the XML spec and the RFC both say that the charset header is authoritative. Well, yes, except when it isn't. Software that ignores it when it's demonstrably wrong is hard to get too angry at. -Tim
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