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RE: Announcement of draft-murata-xml-01.txt

1999-11-18 09:00:32
Could you please explain why the MIME charset declaration must take
precedence over an explicit encoding declaration. 

In addition, there are (or at least have been) MIME processing
engines that do transcoding of text/* MIME bodies without reference
to any of the internal content. You might wish that it were disallowed,
but it isn't. Since it is possible that some agent might change a 
text/xml;charset=iso2022-jp to text/xml;charset=UTF8 without modifying
anything inside the body, being explicit about this possibility
seems like a good idea.

Larry


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