"Marco d'Itri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I quickly read it (I hope I did not miss any important thing) and I think > there is not enough support for foreign languages: just sticking to > Latin-1 will cut out many, many, people, mostly russian and asian > readers.
I surely do not want to write a standard that does that. > I think there are two possible solutions: > - use Unicode (probably UTF-7 encoded like the kernel does for ext2) > and display it using the kernel console driver or a unicode xterm, or Yikes. How would that function for web interfaces? Perl doesn't support unicode yet but should soon I think. > - simply be 8 bit clean and put in EVERY field informations about the > encoding used (it could be latin-1 for west european languages, KOI-8 > for russian, BIG-5 for chinese and so on) and program the user interface > to convert the encoding to the one used by the console (this is not > a trivial task). Hmm. Yeah. > (I think the first solution is the best and easier to implement.) Unfortunately we'd be a bit ahead of the curve w.r.t. browser support, tool support (like Perl, Python). Unicode is more in line with the emerging XML standards, though, too, so probably philosophically better. If I went with UTF-7 encoded text, normal ASCII is just the same, isn't it? (Pardon me; I did a lot of research on UTF-7 in early 1996 but that was a long time ago.) > Please also remember that there is a big difference between stating that > field X contains "ISO-8859-1 characters" and stating that field X > contains "text ISO-8859-1 encoded". The actual content is the same, but > in the text of the first example cannot be interpreted unless the > user interface assumes something about the encoding (i.e. that those > bytes represents glyphs accordingly to the ISO-8859-1 encoding). Ok, I'll update that in the spec. I've made a note for now. Thanks for the thoughtful comments. -- .....A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
