9 Jul
2010
9 Jul
'10
5:32 p.m.
On 09.07.2010 19:15, Ned Freed wrote:
Hi,
currently there is no media type registered for YAML (see <http://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html>). I'd like to change that.
Two questions though:
1) YAML is a text format, but it has hardwired character sets, similar to application/json (detectable via the BOM). This means, it really needs to be registered under application/*, right?
Given that UTF-16 is being used, there really isn't an option - it has to go under application.
Agreed.
But: how did text/xml end up where it is? Or text/html?
IMO text/xml should never have been registered. text/html is trickier; there are competing concerns in that case. But regardless, you are enjoined from using utf-16 in a text type. RFC 2046, section 4.1.1. Ned