Re: Z39.50 character encoding

> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:54:05 -0500
> From: Ray Denenberg <rden@loc.gov>
> 
> > > > Would a request for a particular record syntax
> > > > override any utf-8 option bit set at Init time?
> > >
> > > Well no, that's not what I had in mind.
> >
> > But it _has_ to!  That's what an EXTERNAL is!
> 
> It's not clear to me that the oid embodies the character set. It identifies
> the record syntax.

OK, that's true.  Let me be more specific.  Some of those record
syntaxes that we identify (and USMARC is the obvious example) include
a specification of character set that we are not at liberty to
override -- otherwise the records we serve up will not be USMARC
records.  Other record syntaxes may be less prescriptive.

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