- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 18:53:43 PST
- To: gtn@ebt.com
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
It *is* absolutely vital that content be labelled. I expect any standard that the HTTP working group produce make that a requirement. On the other hand, an informational RFC that describes how HTTP works today should tell the truth: there are servers all over the world that don't label anything, and the results are unreliable and usually result in gibberish. > In the current Netscape, I can set a preference about encodings, and if I > choose "Japanese, auto-detect", not only do I get ugly fonts for my > ISO-8859-1 text, but some IS0-8859-1 get mapped to inappropriate > glyphs at display time. On the other hand, if I set it to ISO-8859-1, > then my Japanes text comes out looking like garbage. I agree, it's awful. How would you suggest describing the mess we've got ourselves into?
Received on Thursday, 18 January 1996 18:58:22 UTC