- 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. -- Ashley Sanders a.sanders@mcc.ac.uk COPAC: A public bibliographic database from MIMAS, funded by JISC http://copac.ac.uk/ - copac@mimas.ac.uk
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