[xml-dev] Text/xml with omitted charset parameter

[Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>]

Hi,

Quoting RFC 3023, section 8.5:

| 8.5 Text/xml with Omitted Charset
| 
|    Content-type: text/xml
| 
|    {BOM}<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
| 
|    or
| 
|    {BOM}<?xml version="1.0"?>
| 
|    This example shows text/xml with the charset parameter omitted.  In
|    this case, MIME and XML processors MUST assume the charset is "us-
|    ascii",

... and issue a fatal error, no BOM in US-ASCII. Mentioning UTF-16 in
this example is absurd, XML documents labeled as text/xml without
charset parameter can never ever be UTF-16 encoded. 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)? Apache uses text/xml as
default type for .xml documents, are they asking for interoperability
problems or what?
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