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Re: Charsets revisited

From: Nickolay Saukh <nms@nns.ru>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 13:16:46 +0300
To: Tim Greenwood <greenwd@openmarket.com>
Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <1907.822565006@Alyona.office.nns.ru> 
> For your chess example if the
> content provider has decided that the "rough approximation in iso-8859-5"
> and the representation in Unicode are multiple representations of the same
> abstract idea, then we have content equivilance and the lowest bs rule for
> deciding which character set to provide holds.

By lowest bs rule server will ALWAYS send iso-8859-5 representation
because it about two times less then Unicode one (for russian).
Received on Thursday, 25 January 1996 02:17:32 UTC

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