Re: Requesting a revision of RFC3023

Bjoern Hoehrmann <[email protected]> Fri, 19 Sep 2003 15:41:27 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.org.w3c.tag,gmane.ietf.xml-mime
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* John Cowan wrote:
>Bjoern Hoehrmann scripsit:
>
>> Depends on the format. Formats should provide means to specify
>> the encoding, if they do not they are BAD, broken as designed.
>
>Plain text is broken as designed?  Programming languages are broken
>as designed?

If a processor is required to guess how to process instances of a
format, the format is clearly broken as designed, yes.