Re: format nego in HTML/10646?

Gavin Nicol (gtn@ebt.com)
Sat, 6 May 95 14:37:17 EDT

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>For example, the point of format negotiation is that clients
>get info in formats they can handle, either by advertising what
>they accept to servers or by some more complicated means. If
>10646 is to be made the HTML document charset, and the MIME (right?)
>charset param is to specify some encoding of 10646, how will a server
>determine whether my client can render a given HTML doc?

I think you still haven't grasped the concept that

Accept-Charset: ISO-2022-JP
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1

can still be used to indicate encoding, even though the document
character set be ISO 10646.

The server should assume that the client can indeed process the
encodings that it requests.

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