Re: HTML Character Representation/Transmission Model

Glenn Adams (glenn@stonehand.com)
Tue, 11 Apr 95 09:53:42 EDT

The system character set of the client is SCS' according to
the model I presented:

CLIENT'S (SCS')
STORAGE OBJECT

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CLIENT'S ENTITY (DCS')

Note that SCS' may be distinct from SCS (the storage object or system
character set employed on the server) and ICS (the interchange character
set).

By client's storage object I really mean the result of translating the
interchange storage object to an internal client representation which is
employed in parsing the entity (document). The entity manager of the
client would read the interchange storage object as such and translate
it to the appropriate system character set or encoding scheme (e.g., 8859-1,
ISO 2022-JP, etc.).

Glenn