Re: [PHP4BETA] CHARSET HELP

There is a difference between a paper standard and an actual implemented standard. Current clients do not follow the paper standard you are qouting. On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > >> > >> I am not sure it is a good idea to default this charset like this. I > >> > >> know > >> > >> I added this directive, but my intention really was not to make > >> > >> iso-9959-1 > >> > >> the default. > >> > > >> > Why not? Isn't 8859-1 standard default encoding? > >> > >> No > > Then, could you please explain me the following sentence from HTTP RFC: > > The "charset" parameter is used with some media types to define the > character set (section 3.4) of the data. When no explicit charset > parameter is provided by the sender, media subtypes of the "text" > type are defined to have a default charset value of "ISO-8859-1" when > received via HTTP. Data in character sets other than "ISO-8859-1" or > its subsets MUST be labeled with an appropriate charset value. > > Some HTTP/1.0 software has interpreted a Content-Type header without > charset parameter incorrectly to mean "recipient should guess." > Senders wishing to defeat this behavior MAY include a charset > parameter even when the charset is ISO-8859-1 and SHOULD do so when > it is known that it will not confuse the recipient. > > > Doesn't it say "ISO-8859-1" is the default? > -- > Stanislav Malyshev stas@zend.com > +972-3-6139665 > >