* Terje Bless | | If it is not registered with IANA, it is not a valid value for the | Âcharset parameter to the MIME ÂContent-Type header field.
True. However, some software will ignore hyphens in charset names in order to make bad encoding declarations like "utf8" work properly. Web browsers are one example of this.
Yes. If there were any sort of consistency in the way charset are âofficiallyâ named, it might be reasonable to stick to the letter of the law, but there is not, and the use of âutf8â (either case) is so commonly used and allowed for in all sorts of programs (cf. Encode.pm) that it would seem sensible to accept it. If âl1â is acceptable for âISO-8859-1â, as it is, though it is not in Appleâs TEC listing, then âutf8â etc. ought to be fairly predictable anomalies.
JD
