[oslc-core] Encoding of OSLC resources

[Frank Budinsky]

I'm wondering if the OSLC core specification needs to say something about
the encoding requirements for OSLC defined resources. Currently it seems to
only specify the requirement to support application/rdf+xml content type,
but there is no mention of charset. I was assuming that perhaps there might
be a well known requirement for the encoding of application/rdf+xml
documented somewhere else (e.g., in some w3c spec), but I've been unable to
find anything concrete. Maybe I just haven't looked long enough?

I think OSLC may need to specify something like:

   Is an explicit charset required in a response header? If not, what is
   the default (e.g., UTF-8)?
   What charsets MUST be supported by OSLC resource providers (e.g., UTF-8
   only, or UTF-8 and UTF-16, or other)?

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Frank.
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