Re: Octet Strings and utf-8

• From: Mike Taylor <mike@miketaylor.org.uk>
• Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 00:06:03 GMT
• To: rden@loc.gov
• CC: www-zig@w3.org
• Message-Id: <200203150006.AAA03196@localhost.localdomain>

> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 11:37:11 -0500
> From: Ray Denenberg <rden@loc.gov>
> 
> Would someone care to suggest some reliable rule of thumb we can
> adopt -- perhaps based on access point, for example, that if we're
> searching on title, author, subject .... -- that an
> octet-string-tagged term is guaranteed to be text and not binary?

PLEASE not more random semantics shoehorned into access points!  If we
really want to go this route (though I'll be interested to see what --
if any -- responses Ralph's question turns up), then can't we try to
find a rule using format/structure or some other more suitable
attribute type?

Received on Thursday, 14 March 2002 19:07:34 UTC