Re: Charsets revisited
Tim Greenwood (greenwd@OpenMarket.com)
Wed, 24 Jan 1996 17:02:04 -0500
At 08:36 PM 1/24/96 +0300, you wrote:
>Suppose I would like to get description of chess game in russian.
>I know about special chess characters in Unicode. But if Unicode
>is not available, then iso8859-5 would be sufficient.
>My agent will send
>
> Accept-Charset: unicode-1-1-utf-8, iso-8859-5
>
>Which text I would receive from server with BOTH versions?
>Which text will be received, if header would look like below?
>
> Accept-Charset: iso-8859-5, unicode-1-1-utf-8
Section 12 of HTTP 1.1 (Nov 22) says "If multiple representations
exist that only vary by Content-Encoding, then the smallest representation
(lowest bs) is preferred."
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Tim Greenwood Open Market Inc
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