- From: Chris Newman <Chris.Newman@INNOSOFT.COM>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 09:03:08 -0700 (PDT)
- To: "Martin J. Duerst" <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Cc: ietf-charsets@INNOSOFT.COM, IETF Languages <ietf-languages@uninett.no>
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Martin J. Duerst wrote: > The first part of your definition, "mapping from octets to characters", > is very widely known and used. The second part of the definition, "related > presentation information", is new to me. Is this your own definition, > or where did you find it? What exactly does the term "presetation > information" mean for you? How do you assure that it means the same > thing for others? The "related presentation information" is a missing portion of the definition. There are things like CRLF, character directionality, Unicode joiner/no-joiners, etc. which effect presentation but are not "characters" in the traditional sense. > I agree that a definition in terms of "overall effect" is shorter > and better suited to the level of Harald's document, and that > the reader can be referred to RFC 2130 for the decomposing > definition and the other details. But "related presentation > information" hasn't been part of the definition up to now, > and is extremely ambiguous. Suggestions for making it more precise would be helpful. It'd be nice to get this right in the next revision of the MIME specification. --Boundary (ID uEbHHWxWEwCKT9wM3evJ5w)
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