- From: Mike Taylor <mike@tecc.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 17:20:00 GMT
- To: rden@loc.gov
- CC: www-zig@w3.org
> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:54:05 -0500 > From: Ray Denenberg <rden@loc.gov> > > > > > Would a request for a particular record syntax > > > > override any utf-8 option bit set at Init time? > > > > > > Well no, that's not what I had in mind. > > > > But it _has_ to! That's what an EXTERNAL is! > > It's not clear to me that the oid embodies the character set. It identifies > the record syntax. OK, that's true. Let me be more specific. Some of those record syntaxes that we identify (and USMARC is the obvious example) include a specification of character set that we are not at liberty to override -- otherwise the records we serve up will not be USMARC records. Other record syntaxes may be less prescriptive. _/|_ _______________________________________________________________ /o ) \/ Mike Taylor <mike@miketaylor.org.uk> www.miketaylor.org.uk )_v__/\ "_Apatosaurus_ sort of looks like a pro wrestler when most of the other sauropods tend to look like ballerinas" -- Matt Wedel.
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