need advice on registration for YAML format

[Ned Freed]

> 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