Re: Glossary "non-text content" Small Nit

> I cannot understand this.  Images and binary content are transferred as
> bytes, but not Unicode characters, surely.
>
Images and binary content are usually send as ASCII characters. Weird eh?

Here's what Wikipedia has to say about the MIME standard:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME

RFC 822:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc822.txt

You can try it yourself. Send an image using email then look at the message 
source. The binary image file has been converted to ASCII characters.

Cheers,
Chris


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Ishida" <ishida@w3.org>
To: "'Gregg Vanderheiden'" <gv@trace.wisc.edu>; "'Chris Ridpath'" 
<chris.ridpath@utoronto.ca>; "'WAI WCAG List'" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Cc: "'Addison Phillips'" <addison.phillips@quest.com>; <fsasaki@w3.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 7:00 AM
Subject: RE: Glossary "non-text content" Small Nit


>
> I cannot understand this.  Images and binary content are transferred as
> bytes, but not Unicode characters, surely.
>
> Also, please be careful to maintain the separation between characters as
> represented by the Unicode repertoire (asbstract) and characters 
> represented
> in a particular Unicode character encoding.
>
> (See http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod/#sec-Perceptions and
> http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod/#sec-Digital for further clarifications re 
> the
> meaning of character).
>
> RI
>
> ============
> Richard Ishida
> W3C
>