RE: character sets: Term as OCTET STRING

Sorry, let me be clearer.  My proposal was for the general form of a Term
(which is an IMPLICIT OCTET STRING) to be included in the negotiation.  Not
all OCTET STRINGs.

Ralph 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Taylor [mailto:mike@tecc.co.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 10:17 AM
> To: levan@oclc.org
> Cc: Pieter.VanLierop@geac.com; www-zig@w3.org
> Subject: Re: character sets: Term as OCTET STRING
> 
> 
> > Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:33:54 -0400 
> > From: "LeVan,Ralph" <levan@oclc.org>
> > 
> > I believe that the negotiation does not apply to OCTET STRING.
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > I also believe that this is a mistake and have proposed that OCTET
> > STRING be included in the negotiation.
> 
> I would be very uncomfortable about changing this.  OCTET STRINGs are
> not strings in this sence.  (They ought perhaps to be called something
> like OCTET SEQUENCES).  What if you include in your GRS-1 record a
> JPEG image as an OCTET STRING?  What would it mean for that to be
> subject to negotation?
> 
> Surely InternationalString should be used everywhere that the idea of
> character-set negotation makes any sense.
> 
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