Re: Charset labelling (Was: Comments on: "Character Set" Considered Harmful)

Brian Behlendorf (brian@organic.com)
Sat, 29 Apr 95 16:49:31 EDT

On Fri, 28 Apr 1995, Bob Jung wrote:
> My Netscape colleague was suggesting the same thing, except he was using
> filename.mim(e). Although, I'd suggest using filename.htt(p) -- I think
> that better describes the file contents.
>
> Like in Larry's proposal, the HTTP headers would be in ASCII, but the
> actual HTML data could be in any encoding. Essentially, this file date
> would look like what an HTTP server would send over the wire. It's general
> enough that the data could be other than HTML (e.g., GIF).

Perfect, except someone somewhere has to worry about the existance of,
e.g. "mother.htm" and "mother.gif".

Brian "8.3 rocks"

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