RE: character sets: Term as OCTET STRING

> So how difficult a step would it be to simply support the
> InternationalString?
> 
> --Ray

Ray, that is not the right question. It is relatively easy to support
InternationalString.

But the question is: How long will it take before all version 3 servers in
the world will accept InternationalString as Term type? And the answer is,
that we will never be sure that all servers would want to do that. So in
that case, for the sake of interoperability, when I am a Z39.50 client and I
am sending a request to server I don't know, I use OCTET STRING because that
gives the best chance on success.

Pieter

Received on Wednesday, 10 July 2002 10:42:44 UTC