Re: tlug: EUC & SJIS (correction)

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Klaus" == Klaus Kudielka <kudielka@example.com> writes:

    Klaus> Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
    >> Both solutions are unavailable in the case of mirrors or
    >> caches.  You want a per file solution, and a solution that does
    >> not require operator intervention.

    Klaus> General-purpose mirrors and caches MUST store and
    Klaus> re-distribute/re-use the charset parameter if it was
    Klaus> present in the HTTP header when getting each document. That
    Klaus> place is the authoritative source, according to HTML4 spec
    Klaus> (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/charset.html).

Fine if it's there.  If it isn't?  The point is that the administrator
in question does not control the presence of the appropriate HTTP
header.

Authors matter too.  What does an author do if stuck with a bad
administrator?  What does an author do when moving documents from one
site to another?  The META tag serves as documentation internal to the
document, and is far more likely to get correctly updated than if the
information is in a separate file..

Sure, you'd prefer that the server do the recognition automagically
and send out the correct HTTP header, and the spec quite correctly
gives this precedence over the META tag, since you can even imagine
servers (and clients, for that matter) doing on-the-fly conversion.

    Klaus> Just relying on the presence of the meta tag is wrong (the
    Klaus> tag may not be present in the original document).

And the Content-Type charset parameter may be missing or wrong in the
HTTP headers.  Your point is?

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