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solderpunk solderpunk at SDF.ORG
Tue May 19 08:14:46 BST 2020
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On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 09:45:35PM +0000, jan6 at tilde.ninja wrote:
I'm not sure I see the point in the encoding part, though...
practically everything can be converted to utf8 rather easily, making it a bit useless to
specify...
That's been in the spec since early days, the only proposed change hereis the language part. The charset parameter is explicitly optional andthe default in its absence is UTF-8, which clients MUST support.Support for additional encodings in clients is optional, but they shouldfail gracefully in the face of things they can't handle.
I expect 90%+ of content to be UTF-8 and for servers not to botherspecifying this as it's the explicit default, but it seemed unwise to becompletely incapable of handing anything else.
Cheers,Solderpunk