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Fwd: Re: Default of the charset parameter



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MURATA Makoto wrote...

> Proposal:
> 
> The default of the charset parameter of text/xml and
> application/xml is UTF-8 rather than US-ASCII (RFC 2045) or
> ISO-8859-1 (RFC 2068 [HTTP/1.1]).

I believe that UTF-8 is a better default than ISO-8859-1 or US-ASCII.  
But if HTTP people and MIME people does not accept such revision, 
I would propose that the charset parameter of text/xml and application/xml 
be mandatory.  In other words, there will be no default.



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