- From: Liv Aasa Holm <Liv.A.Holm@jbi.hio.no>
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 07:59:56 +0100
- To: www-zig@w3.org
Most MARC formats do NOT specify a character set. Does DC? I have at least not seen it, but perhaps it is implisit? Liv ===== Original Message from Ray Denenberg <rden@loc.gov> at 27.02.02 19:12 >Mike Taylor wrote: > >> Some kinds of object (e.g. USMARC) specify a character set, and >> others (GRS-1) do not. Those which do, we must respect. > >True, some do and some don't. > >Two questions we need to answer before we go much further (and I think we >need help from the experts on these): > >(1) Is is clear exactly which do and which don't? >(2) For those which "do", is it always the case that these will be >transfered according to the native character encoding or is it likely that >clients will want records in utf-8, even in the case where the format >specifies a native encoding? > >And I think (1) is the more important question. We can address (2) later. > >In other words for any given format, is it always implicitly known to both >parties (client and server) whether or not the format comes with a native >encoding. If so then our problem is simplified. But if not, then I'm afraid >Mike's philosophy "Those which do, we must respect" isn't going to work in >practice. > >--Ray ===== Comments by Liv.A.Holm@jbi.hio.no (Liv Aasa Holm) at 28.02.02 07:58 ******************************************************* Liv A. Holm associate professor Oslo University college faculty of journalism, library and information science tel. +47-22-45-27-77 fax.:+47-22-45-26-05 *******************************************************
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