> My question is not "Can we do 2022 please?"
>
> It's "How do we get from the current situation to one where the charsets
> are labelled?" This is the pressing issue that I think Amanda is also
> concerned about.
>
> Preferably, any proposed solution would also take into account the
> installed base and migration issues.
I see a number of ways to proceed:
1. Specify the charset requirement handling now, implement it in
browsers, but wait 6 months before actually employing it, so that
most people have updated to browsers with the capacity.
2. Do a kind of ESMTP enhanced HTTP negotiation scheme.
3. having the identity and version number of the calling browser's
and then react in the server accordingly.
keld