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Re: [xml-dev] Text/xml with omitted charset parameter
- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 08:36:20 -0400
At 5:27 PM +0900 10/28/01, MURATA Makoto wrote:
>No, there are absolutely no chances for such a change. Such changes
>have been tried and failed. MIME people will never agree to change
>the default.
>
>So many e-mail programs use the charset parameter to display MIME entities
>labelled as text/*. If the charset parameter is absent, such programs will
>assume that the MIME entity is us-ascii. This change will invaliate such
>programs.
>
So is it the case, then, that the default for everything in the text/* tree must be ASCII or 8859-1? It's not possible for the subtype text/xml to provide a different default than the type text?
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