- From: Drazen Kacar <Drazen.Kacar@public.srce.hr>
- Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 20:30:57 +0100 (MET)
- To: masinter@parc.xerox.com (Larry Masinter)
- Cc: kweide@tezcat.com, www-international@w3.org
Larry Masinter wrote: > # If there is a need for a client to express "I can understand UTF-8, > # but can only display some of the 10646 characters: ..." - and I > # definitely think there is such a need - I don not see a way to implement > # this cleanly. > > I think this kind of communication is along the same lines as: "I can > implement all of HTML 3.5 tables, except I don't know anything about > the 'border' parameter". I don't think it's the same category. If I requested a page which is available in Japanese only, I'd be much happier with 406 response and a short message (preferably in one of the languages I put in accept-language) describing the situation than 200 response with a page in Japanese. The problem with 406 in this situation is that some charsets are completely unreadable to a given person and some are not. If I requested something in Esperanto (iso-8859-3, which I didn't put in accept-charset), I'd prefere 200 response. -- Life is a sexually transmitted disease. dave@fly.cc.fer.hr dave@zemris.fer.hr
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