Re: Warnings, RFC 1522, and ISO-8859-1

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Francois Yergeau:
>
>># 2) All clients can be assumed to support ISO 8859-1.
[...]
> Yet conforming 1.1 servers can simply assume
>(wrongly) that all 1.0 clients support 8859-1 (#2 above), resulting in bad
>interoperability.

1.1 servers can _not_ assume that all 1.0 clients support 8859-1.  The
#2 above is the assumption for what all 1.1 clients accept.

When trying to interoperate with a 1.0 client, a 1.1 server should use
the 1.0 spec.  There is nothing in the 1.0 spec which allows you to
assume that all 1.0 clients support a particular character set.

Koen.

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