Re: Some text that may be useful for the update of RFC 2376

["Martin J. Duerst" <duerst@xxxxxx>]

Keith - I'm confused.

At 10:42 00/03/15 -0500, Keith Moore wrote:
> > Are you saying that each format should invent their own rules for 
> > indicating the charset? 
> 
> that's how MIME parameters work.  

I don't think the 'charset' parameter works that way.
Either you use it, the way it's defined, or you don't.


> trying to coerce every data format into a common set of rules is
> much more difficult, and highly unlikely to succeed.

Trying it for *every* data format is a bad idea.
But trying it for most formats, or a class of formats, usually works.

Regards,    Martin.


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