[lee: I hope you don't mind my copying the list. I hope this example
will illustrate the mechanism to some other folks, too.]
I'm not sure I understand this encoding. But it seems that there is a
set of charactes, and a way to map sequences of octets into sequences
of those characters; i.e. this is a character encoding scheme. So I'd
write:
Content-Type: text/html; charset=x-ancient-greek
<title>example</title>
<p>abc*`\a</p>
The content of the P element above has 4 characters, not 7.
That is:
x-ancient-greek : SEQ(Octet) -> SEQ(greek-char)
and
x-ancient-greek("abc*`\a") = 'abc?'
where ? is the funky character described above.
Dan