On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 15:37 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Then if there is a charset parameter, with a value that refers to > > some known text character set, I think that one can assume that > > the contents are encoded with this charset, thus can be displayed > > as text. > I don't think that follows at all. It might just mean that the text > in (say) the zipfile filenames is in whatever charset is specified.
I agree... the charset parameter does not necessarily imply that one has plain text. At least for HTTP it's not defined (at least not int RFC 2616) how the charset= parameter is to be interpreted, and thus Ian's example is absolutely valid. Cheers, Chris.
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