RE: Fun with proof by analogy, was Re: Mojibake on my Web pages

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John Cowan wrote:
> It's worse than that. If the HTTP header says "text/xml" or
> "text/html",
> and no charset information is provided, a fully conforming browser
> MUST treat this as if the charset "us-ascii" is specified.

Nit: this is not the case for text/html, which fortunately took exception
from the MIME specs on this. From the HTML 4.01 spec, 5.2.2:

 "Therefore, user agents must not assume any default value for the "charset"
parameter."

> That's just insane, but such are the rules.

Correct for text/xml. Better not use that, then, and favor application/xml.

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François Yergeau

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