[Tim Bray]
<surprised>Hold on a second! I just went and read RFC 2046, section
4.1.2, and it seems to me that the US-ASCII default is only compulsory
for text/plain! I quote the text:
Yes, but: with the two-level hierarchy of MIME media types, it's expected
that a processor that doesn't understand text/foo can fall back to
processing an entity as text/plain. So while text/xml can have any or no
default, we have to consider the case of a non-XML-aware processor
(possibly including a transcoder) handling it as text/plain, which includes
a default encoding of US-ASCII.
-Chris
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