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Re: [xml-dev] Text/xml with omitted charset parameter
- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- To: MURATA Makoto <EB2M-MRT@asahi-net.or.jp>
- Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 14:19:00 +0100
* MURATA Makoto wrote:
>> XML does not need to change MIME, XML can just go and mandate UTF-8
>> defaulting from XML processors. Mandating UTF-8 is as inconsistent with
>> HTTP as is mandating us-ascii. And who cares about consistency? Look at
>> HTML, it forbids any defaulting behaivour, but allows user agents to use
>> heuristics to determine the encoding. Welcome to the wonderful world
>> of nonsense.
>
>Which UTF-8? UTF-8 with the Unicode signature or UTF-8 without the
>Unicode signature?
Preferably without.
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