On Sunday, October 26, 2003, 3:04:11 PM, MURATA wrote: MM> On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 16:26:31 +0200 MM> Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org> wrote:
"There is no charset parameter. Character handling has identical semantics to the case where the charset parameter of the "application/xml" media type is omitted, as described in [RFC3023]."
The intent seems identical to what you suggest. What am I missing here?
MM> I think that this I-D should provide a good reason to omit the charset MM> parameter and that reason should be specific to application/shf+xml. MM> For example, "this media type uses UTF-8 only" is a perfectly good reason. MM> In this particular case, are there any reasons to allow something MM> different from UTF-8? (I'm just asking.) Probably not, though I would advance the case that if they really are using an XML parser then they get UTF-16 for free and should allow both. However, I was not saying that the only time the charset parameter should be omitted was when the encoding was UTF-8 or UTF-16. -- Chris mailto:chris@w3.org