- From: Tim Greenwood <greenwd@openmarket.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 17:02:04 -0500
- To: Nickolay Saukh <nms@nns.ru>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
At 08:36 PM 1/24/96 +0300, you wrote: >Suppose I would like to get description of chess game in russian. >I know about special chess characters in Unicode. But if Unicode >is not available, then iso8859-5 would be sufficient. >My agent will send > > Accept-Charset: unicode-1-1-utf-8, iso-8859-5 > >Which text I would receive from server with BOTH versions? >Which text will be received, if header would look like below? > > Accept-Charset: iso-8859-5, unicode-1-1-utf-8 Section 12 of HTTP 1.1 (Nov 22) says "If multiple representations exist that only vary by Content-Encoding, then the smallest representation (lowest bs) is preferred." ------------------------------------- Tim Greenwood Open Market Inc 617 679 0320 greenwd@openmarket.com
Received on Wednesday, 24 January 1996 14:05:27 UTC