At 17:15 00/03/14 +0100, Chris Lilley wrote:
MURATA Makoto wrote:
We are all aware of this problem. We are also aware of transcoders
which changes the charset parameter but does not rerwrite encoding
declarations.
Yes - such behaviour is clearly broken. Since a transcoder is changing many
or all the other bytes in the file, expecting it to also correctly update
the encoding declaration rather than leaving it broken is not asking too
much.
I completely disagree. A trancoder transcodes. A transcoder may know
about a few (or a lot of) encodings. It is absolutely unreasonable
to ask for a transcoder to know all kinds of data formats, and
where in that data format some encoding hints are hidden (if they are).
If we had only XML on the internet, that would be different,
but that's not at all the case (yet).
Regards, Martin.
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