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

Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com> Fri, 30 March 2012 23:08 UTC

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