Re: Requesting a revision of RFC3023

MURATA Makoto <[email protected]> Fri, 19 Sep 2003 21:25:06 +0900
Newsgroups gmane.org.w3c.tag,gmane.ietf.xml-mime
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 03:50:11 +0200
Bjoern Hoehrmann <[email protected]> wrote:

> Depends on the format. Formats should provide means to specify
> the encoding, if they do not they are BAD, broken as designed.

If we really promote in-band declarations, we should recommend 
one mechanism for all textual formats.  I think that CSS style 
declaration (@chaset) is the best I have seen.  If the TAG recommends 
this mechanism for all formats except XML and HTML, that would 
be one reasonable principle.

Cheers,

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MURATA Makoto <[email protected]>