Sorry for wrong threading but I accidentally deleted the last email here: > One reason is that the server may very well translate the encoding > based on negotiation with the client. (I guess you could argue that
Yes, but *if* the encoding is negotatied, a default value makes not that much sense (apart from the situation that absolutely no negotiation takes place). > it should remove the charset attribute from the META tag if it does.) Technically: *If* the webserver hands out a file and tells explicitly it's encoding, it must have it right. If that means "parse the .html file, find appropriate headers, convert the file and rewrite all relevant headers etc." than he absolutely must do it. At least in Apache (1 and 2) there is ATM no mechanism in there which tries to do that AFAIK. And you are right with the unquoted part: A default makes here absolutely no sense. > A second reason is that admins will occasionally translate encodings > and not even be aware that some users who are too smart for their own > good have used META tags. Well, but the real reason for the problem is somewhere else - namely in between the admin and the users. And we have probably now the situation that most of the .html producing users and tools are dumb ebough to actually need such crazy options .... BTW I wonder why there are no "check the files on a webspace" scripts out there which simply check this ... Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp