Suggestion: Default Character Set

Peter Eriksson <pen@lysator.liu.se> Tue, 04 August 1992 13:30 UTC

Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 15:28:28 -0000
From: Peter Eriksson <pen@lysator.liu.se>
To: ident@NRI.Reston.VA.US
Subject: Suggestion: Default Character Set
Message-Id: <CMM.0.90.0.712934908.pen@robin.lysator.liu.se>

A small suggestion:
 
  Let's change the default character set (the one one should assume if
the character set identifier is missing) from US-ASCII to OCTET. 
 
  This would make the Ident protocol fully backwards (well almost) compatible
in that an RFC931 (or TAP) compliant server (which doesn't have the character
set identifier) and that can output non-US-ASCII characters will not break
an IDENT-compliant application that expects the identifier to consist of
US-ASCII characters only. It will also make it compatible with all the
current servers in use today...
 
  I also happen to think it "looks" better. Ie, no character set specified ->
don't make any assumption on what is returned (== OCTET).
 
/Peter

Peter Eriksson                                              pen@lysator.liu.se
Lysator Academic Computer Society                 ...!uunet!lysator.liu.se!pen
University of Linkoping, Sweden                           I'm bored. Flame me.

Suggestion: Default Character Set Peter Eriksson
Re: Suggestion: Default Character Set Mike StJohns
Re: Suggestion: Default Character Set David A. Borman
Re: Suggestion: Default Character Set Theodore Ts'o
Re: Suggestion: Default Character Set Mark D. Baushke