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Re: [apps-discuss] I-D Action: draft-ietf-appsawg-mime-default-charset-01.txt

Ned Freed <ned.freed@mrochek.com> Sun, 01 April 2012 04:46 UTC

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> On 31/03/2012 00:52, Larry Masinter wrote:
> > RFC 2397 defaults media type of "data:" URIs to text/plain;charset=US-ASCII.
> >
> > Should this be updated to default to utf8?
> I don't think so, unless there is WG consensus to change the default for
> text/plain in general. And so far I haven't seen one.

How does this relate to the default for text/plain? I presume this default
would only apply if no content-type was specified.

				Ned

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