- From: Ray Denenberg <rden@loc.gov>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 11:20:42 -0400
- To: zig <www-zig@w3.org>
Pieter Van Lierop wrote: > It is relatively easy to support InternationalString. > > But the question is: How long will it take before all version 3 servers in > the world will accept InternationalString as Term type? And the answer is, > that we will never be sure that all servers would want to do that. So in > that case, for the sake of interoperability, when I am a Z39.50 client and I > am sending a request to server I don't know, I use OCTET STRING because that > gives the best chance on success. But Pieter, consider this argument: We're assuming a version 3 server with character set negotiation. Thus some implementor took a version 3 implementation (which did not previously support InternationalString) and implemented character set negotiation on top. It's safe to assume the implementor read the character set negotiation definintion. If he read it correctly he would note that he has to implement InternationalString in order to properly implement character set negotiation. And as you note above " It is relatively easy to support InternationalString." If he has to modify the server anyway, why didn't he implement it? Or to put it more bluntly, why would the so implementor blatantly ignore the specification? --Ray
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