ACTION-66: submit a text for section 6.2.8

Mail sent to the group on 25/09/05

Mail sent to the group on 25/09/05

Proposed text:

Character Encoding

Ensure that content is encoded using a character set that is known to be
supported by the target device.
Indicate in the response the character encoding being used.

How to do it

The supported character encodings for a device may be obtained either
from a device profile or by examining the value of the HTTP
Accept-Charset header sent with a request.

The character encoding being used in a response may be indicated using
the HTTP Content-Type header.
Example:
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

For XML content the character encoding may be specified in the encoding
declaration [XMLENC]
Example:
<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>


Reference

XMLENC XML Character Encoding http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#charencoding

ref: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-bpwg/2005Sep/0300.html