Re: Charsets revisited

> >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.
> 
> 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." 

Well, they vary by special chess characters in Unicode and their
rough approximation in iso-8859-5.

Received on Wednesday, 24 January 1996 14:16:53 UTC