- From: Keld J|rn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 13:51:27 +0200
- To: mirsad.todorovac@fer.hr, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Mirsad Todorovac writes: > > In few last messages regarding charsets, I was to notice that many troubles > could be handled via some character remapping mechanism. > > How this should work is as follows: > > - let's suppose that browser cannot accept document charset, then > document should be translated into charset which is supported > by browser, but lest likely to loose some characters > > (Example: with CP-1250 and iso-8859-2 there are only some > swapped blocks of chars, says Dave, so then there should > never be a loss in conversion, but we don't need to have > both, duplicate versions of documents -- one for UN*X > machines, and one for Wind*ws CEE [and still more for > other platforms ...] > ) > > - conversion mechanism is simple transliteration, different codes are > being assigned for the same characters RFC1345 actually provides specifications for doing such simple transliteration, with fallbacks. keld simonsen
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