Subject: Re: <draft-hoffman-char-lang-media-01.txt>

From: Graham Klyne <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 11:35:10 +0100

At 10:31 28/07/99 +0900, Martin J. Duerst wrote:

>> "character encoding" is fine.
>
>This has nothing to do with SGML-slantedness, it's just plain old Math.
>
>For more details, please see
>http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/charset-harmful.

Noted.  As the paper says, a lot of water has flowed under that bridge.

But the position "Note that each text/* media type has an associated
charset parameter,
which designates a character encoding scheme" seems to be a useful
terminological position.

#g

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