On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Frank Ellermann wrote: > > > > For example HTML4 says to not default to any encoding at all [1] > [...] > > Yes, but HTTP has to work for plain text
RFC 2046 handles that. > pre-HTML 4 HTML5 defines processing for all versions of HTML, so that's taken care of too. > etc etc like what? > and I think HTTP needs its own idea of what is allowed in a HTTP header. Sure, but that's unrelated to text/*. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
