[spec] Limit valid encodings of text/gemini to UTF-8
Petite Abeille petite.abeille at gmail.com
Tue Dec 29 22:29:34 GMT 2020
> On Dec 29, 2020, at 22:24, Peter Vernigorov <pitr.vern at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Back to a more productive topic, the wording in the spec - "clients
> MUST support UTF-8 encoded responses" - is ambiguous and doesn't
> actually mean that acceptable value for "charset" must include
> "utf-8", and says nothing about what values of "charset" are
> acceptable.
Confused indeed.
Are you making a distinction between UTF-8 the encoding vs. utf-8 the charset? Is there such difference? What would that difference be? I feel out of depth.
But ok, if that helps in term of clarity of purpose, then more power to the spec by spelling it out.
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