Please review application/shf+xml

[Chris Lilley]

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 at 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.



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