Re: Accept-Charset support

To: rosenne@NetVision.net.il
Subject: Re: Accept-Charset support
From: gtn@ebt.com (Gavin Nicol)
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 16:34:59 -0500
CC: kweide@tezcat.com, masinter@parc.xerox.com, Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr, www-international@w3.org
From www-international-request@www10.w3.org Mon Dec 9 16: 41:12 1996
In-reply-to: <1.5.4.32.19961209202034.00663520@mail.netvision.net.il> (message from Jonathan Rosenne on Mon, 09 Dec 1996 22:20:34 +0200)
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>>Prediction: This will not always be true. I would expect more translation/
>>transliteration servers to appear in the near future.
>
>If I do not know Japanese, transliteration will not be of much use. If I do,
>I would prefer Japanese characters.

Sure, but if you access a Japanese page from a machine that doesn't
support Japanese, perhaps you might still at least like to *read* it
instead of seeing garbage?

>A translation service would probably be a user option, and not always 
>useful.

Client-side transaltion is becoming popular in more than one country...

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