I see... "If there is a Content-Type header contains a text/html MIME type follow the rules set forth in the HTML specification to determine the character encoding. Let charset be the determined character encoding." -- http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-XMLHttpRequest-20070618/
but I don't see the HTML spec in http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/#bibref I suggest giving a specific section reference for "rules set forth in the HTML specification to determine the character encoding" I don't think the HTML 1/2/3/4 specs have any such rules, so I gather you mean to refer to the HTML 5 spec. In the current editor's draft, I suppose that's... 3.7.5.4. Specifying the document's character encoding http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#charset Does your schedule include waiting for HTML 5? I can't find a roadmap/schedule from http://www.w3.org/2006/webapi/ . I wonder if we could break out the character encoding stuff from HTML 5 into a separate spec. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
