RE: Scope of Accept-Charset (WAS: RE: Parameters for top-level XML media types?)

["Larry Masinter" <masinter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> at Thursday, May 06, 1999 5:35 PM Larry Masinter wrote:
> 
> > [snip]
> > The scope of "Accept-Charset" is unclear
> > (whether it applies to more than text/plain and text/html),
> > [snip]
> 
> Why do you think that "Accept-Charset" may apply only to
> text/plain and text/html?

Because that's all it is used for in practice. A browser that
sends "accept-charset: utf-8" may be able to deal with
text/plain and text/html documents in utf-8, but it
is unlikely to know whether or not the RTF handler inside
application/word is also capable of dealing with utf-8.

One of the problems with "accept-charset" (that wouldn't
be there if we used RFC 2533 feature sets) is that there's
no way to link it to particular media types.

Larry