Re: Closure on canonicalization, I hope
Roy T. Fielding (fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU)
Fri, 23 Dec 1994 21:54:19 -0800
> I was just on the verge of finishing up a paper explaining the issues,
> and proposing use of UTF etc. I will still send this out as it's
> relevant for browser writers, and HTML authors.
Yep.
> Just to clarify, in Larry's proposal, the Accept-charset is not required
> because we can do the same thing via:
>
> Accept: text/html; charset=xxxx
Yep.
> However, how do we handle text/sgml, text/plaintext etc? Can they be
> handled the same way, or do we still need Accept-charset.
All text/* types use the charset parameter.
SGML would likely be application/sgml, and its character set is defined
in one of the declarations, though it could also have a charset paramenter
if that's how they define the media type.
......Roy Fielding ICS Grad Student, University of California, Irvine USA
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