I'm wondering if the OSLC core specification needs to say something about the encoding requirements for OSLC defined resources. Currently it seems to only specify the requirement to support application/rdf+xml content type, but there is no mention of charset. I was assuming that perhaps there might be a well known requirement for the encoding of application/rdf+xml documented somewhere else (e.g., in some w3c spec), but I've been unable to find anything concrete. Maybe I just haven't looked long enough?
I think OSLC may need to specify something like: Is an explicit charset required in a response header? If not, what is the default (e.g., UTF-8)? What charsets MUST be supported by OSLC resource providers (e.g., UTF-8 only, or UTF-8 and UTF-16, or other)? Thoughts? Thanks, Frank.
