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Re: http charset labelling

Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com> Thu, 01 February 1996 19:51 UTC

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> The notation should not be on business cards etc, I think we
> all agree on this. It should not either be in URLs in html docs,
> I also think we all agree on that.

No, I completely disagree. If people are going to be so foolish as to
put their URLs on their business cards, they should put them there in
a form that is useful. And certainly HTML documents absolutely need to
know how the URL is represented.

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