Thanks for clearing up all my muddledness. And for pointing out the
fact that MIME is written intentionally from an open-ended perspective.
I'm sorry that my background is almost wholly in ISO and ITU-T specs,
and I'll failed to suspect that MIME was written from a different
slant. And I didn't realize that the IANA character set registry
didn't exist as recently as RFC 204x series.
So as a co-editor, you have told us that any IANA registered character
set may be used in the 'charset' parameter of 'text/*' MIME types.
Could the character set policy that Harald is hard at work on
possibly just SAY that, in the interim until the MIME RFCs are
updated (perhaps quite a bit later), so us chickens would get the
message clearly?
Cheers,
- Ira McDonald (outside consultant at Xerox)
High North Inc
906-494-2434