Could you please explain why this is unacceptable for text/xml but perfectly fine for text/html, text/css, etc.?
It is also unacceptable for text/html, text/css, etc. If you read IETF RFCs for them, the default is US-ASCII. It is true that W3C
specifications say differently.
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