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Julian Reschke wrote:

there's also RFC2616

Yes, that's an ugly legacy exception...

<http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.1/rfc2616bis/issues/#i20>

...maybe 2616bis can drop this oddity in favour of a simple "unknown text is ASCII" rule. HTTP oddities shouldn't affect MIME registrations, there's no string "2616" in BCP13. Frank