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Re: BOM and encodings questions

• From: Philippe Poulard <Philippe.Poulard@s...>
• To: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:54:06 +0100

David Carlisle wrote:
> 
> If you use a text/xml mime type the encoding of the document might be
> changed in transit by a text encoder that knows nothing about the xml
> structure, so it would be very difficult to allow encoding switches mid
> document, even if that were desired.

this is why it is preferable to use application/xml and variants

RFC 3023 describes all that stuff

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• References:
  • RE: BOM and encodings questions
    • From: "Shlomo Yona" <S.Yona@F...>
  • Re: BOM and encodings questions
    • From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>