- From: Ashley Sanders <zzaascs@irwell.mimas.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 09:12:11 +0000
- To: zig <www-zig@w3.org>
Ray Denenberg wrote:
> (a) Assign an option bit for utf-8 encoding.
> (b) Define an attribute for the encoding of a
> search term.
> (c) Do both.
I guess I prefer an option bit. Howevever...
> Option bit
> If this bit is negotiated it would pertain to
> retrieved data as well as the search term.
...if a utf-8 option is negotiated between origin
and target is it possible for me to subsequently
return a UKMARC (or other national format) record?
MARC21 is not a problem as you can have unicode
MARC21 records, but UKMARC records "use an
extended ASCII (8 bit) character set". There
is no MARC leader byte in UKMARC to indicate
an alternative unicode/utf-8 encoding.
Would a request for a particular record syntax
override any utf-8 option bit set at Init time?
Ashley.
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