Charset mandatory in unix/linux

[Arnt Gulbrandsen]

Martin Duerst writes:
> At 00:10 06/03/13, Ned Freed wrote:
> >(cc'ing the ietf-types list since this doesn't seem like an 
> appropriate topic
> >for ietf-822)
> >
> >> The charset parameter is mandatory in the MIME content-type attribute.
> >
> >Actually, I don't know of a single case where this is true.
>
> I don't, either.

Huh.

So I looked closely, and I find that you're right. How about stressing 
this a little more in the successor to RFC 2045? Ned? Section 5.2 could 
state clearly that «Content-Type: text/plain» does NOT mean the same as 
a missing Content-Type header.

Arnt