Keith Moore wrote:
So: are we really *really* sure that we have to default to US-ASCII,
or <important>that we have to default at all</important>?
if you have a charset parameter, it should be consistent with the
charset parameter for text/plain. this is so that mail user agents
that don't understand text/xml can fallback to handling it as
text/plain, including their treatment of the charset parameter.
And thus the corollary of this: if you are not happy for text/plain
fallback to be playing fast and loose with your XML instance, then use
application/xml instead.
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Chris