Re: well-formedness error

[Asbjørn Ulsberg <asbjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 19:07:21 -0400, Sam Ruby <rubys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  
wrote:

> It does seem to be the case that the default charset for text/xml is  
> routinely ignored, to the point where the default itself is meaningless.

Is there a good explanation of why 'text/*' is defined as US-ASCII, and  
that 'text/xml' hasn't overriden that (bad) judgment (yet)? As XML is  
Unicode, I think it's pretty dumb to default pretty much all XML-over-HTTP  
to US-ASCII. If you have a good reference to something explaining why this  
was chosen for 'text/xml' (I can understand 'text/plain'), I'd be very  
greatful.

> Note: "application/xml" (with no other qualification) avoids this  
> problem.

That doesn't change that many Atom feeds will be served with an '.xml'  
extension, and thus with 'Content-Type: text/xml'.

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