- From: Nickolay Saukh <nms@nns.ru>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 16:15:27 +0300
- To: Keld J|rn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> > By lowest bs rule server will ALWAYS send iso-8859-5 representation > > because it about two times less then Unicode one (for russian). > > How is this actually implemented? Would that be that for every > charset that you have the number of characters in there, and > then you chose the charset of the acccept-charset with the best fit? > Where do you have the database? > > I think this is a bit unpractical, also the heuristics of it. > Maybe it should be that the list of accept-charsets are ordered by > preference and the first one that fits is the one transferred. > There should also be fallback rules, if no exact fit is encountered. This thread started from my question about lack of quality factor in recent draft for Accept-Charset header.
Received on Thursday, 25 January 1996 05:18:05 UTC