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

[MURATA Makoto <muraw3c@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message "Re: Some text that may be useful for the update of RFC 2376",
Chris Lilley wrote...
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 >
 >MURATA Makoto wrote:
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 >> In message "Re: Some text that may be useful for the update of RFC 2376",
 >> Chris Lilley wrote...
 >> 
 >>  >> - XML sent (e.g. mail, http) as text/xml (or equivalent, e.g. text/vnd.wap.wml):
 >>  >
 >>  >as text/"anything" in other words
 >> 
 >> I think that RFC 2046 covers text/* in general.  RFC 2376 cannot
 >> change the default of HTTP (i.e., 8859-1).  The IAB allowed
 >> RFC 2376 to change the default for text/xml only.
 >
 >That was what I was suggesting, changing it for text/xml only.

If we consider e-mail and fallback to text/plain, there is not 
much we can do to text/xml.  We can mandate the charset parameter.  
That's all what we can do.  We cannot change the default.





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