In message "Re: Some text that may be useful for the update of RFC 2376",
Chris Lilley wrote...
Thus, for any XML file which is not encoded in US-ASCII, text/xml is an
inappropriate choice of MIME type. Silent data corruption can and will
occur.
If I use UTF-8 or UTF-16 and provide the charset parameter, no data
corruption will occur.
For all international xml files (noting that in this context, the USA is
international too due to the widespread use of Spanish, and the wide numbe
rof other languages in use), a type such as application/xml is the correct
choice, unless ther eis a more specific non-text type available.
If an XML document is readable for casual users, satisfies
restrictions of the top-level media type "text", and does not require
special dispatching, "text/xml" is the most appropriate media type.
Cheers,
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MURATA Makoto muraw3c(_at_)attglobal(_dot_)net