- From: Martin J. Duerst <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 12:19:36 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Cc: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>, http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Koen Holtman wrote: > Jeffrey Mogul: > >HTTP is for computers to talk to each other, not for humans. > > > >Koen and others want human users to be able to specify feature > >tags. Fine; just introduce a map between a set of human-sensible, > >internationalized names, and the enumerated set of feature tags. > >This map could be implementation specific, or it could be > >standardized *independent of HTTP*, to make service-authoring > >tools more portable. But the purpose of this map is to cleanly > >separate what computers do and what humans do. Such mappings have existed for a long time. One of them is called us-ascii :-). Its most widely usable internationalized version is called UTF-8. > I don't like the idea of requiring the use of a mapping tool to make > things author-friendly. That is no way to bootstrap a new > technology. Well, the mapping tools are already available; they are called text editors or so :-). Regards, Martin.
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