Re: (ACCEPT*) Draft text for Accept headers
Keld J|rn Simonsen (keld@dkuug.dk)
Tue, 2 Apr 1996 22:51:16 +0200
Koen Holtman writes:
> 10.2 Accept-Charset
>
> The Accept-Charset request-header field can be used to indicate what
> character sets are acceptable for the response. This field allows
> clients capable of understanding more comprehensive or
> special-purpose character sets to signal that capability to a server
> which is capable of representing documents in those character
> sets. The US-ASCII character set can be assumed to be acceptable to
> all user agents.
>
> | [##QUESTION TO BE RESOLVED: Apparently, the latest HTML spec says
> | that iso-8859-1 can be assumed to be acceptable to all user agents.
> | Should the above US-ASCII be changed to iso-8859-1?? There has
> | been lots of discussion on the list, but I have not been able to
> | detect a consensus opinion.##]
My 2 cents: it soyld be iso-8859-1 that is the default, referring
to previous discussion for that view.
Another suggestion: there should be a quality parameter also with
accept-charset, a q<1 meaning that the browser may be able to display
in a less readable fashion, for example in mnemonic or 10646 fallback,
or that it need to shift fonts or load a special programme to
dispaly the charset or other impeded things.
Keld