- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 21:23:39 +0100 (MET)
- To: kweide@tezcat.com (Klaus Weide)
- Cc: koen@win.tue.nl, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com, www-international@w3.org
Klaus Weide:
>
>On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Koen Holtman wrote:
>> Klaus Weide:
>> >
>> [...using feature negotiation to negotiate on UTF-8....]
>>
>> >Maybe it is the most practical way. But no mechanism is in place yet,
>> >while overloading the language header (and associated inventiveness with
>> >new HTML tags) can be done now...
>>
>> Overloading a HTTP header and adding HTML tags will take _much_ more time
>> than waiting for feature negotiation to be in place.
>
>Let's hope so :). However, with overloading I meant treating
>{Content,Accept}-Language headers (and related HTML tags or attributes)
>as carrying character repertoire meaning - which is happening now.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Interesting. That seems like a very strange thing to do.
Who is doing this and why? Could you give a pointer?
Koen.
Received on Saturday, 14 December 1996 15:23:32 UTC