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Re: I18N Concensus - Generic Syntax Document

Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org> Fri, 07 March 1997 13:59 UTC

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From: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
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To: fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu, mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch
Subject: Re: I18N Concensus - Generic Syntax Document
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>  An HTTP server doesn't need one -- its URLs are
>either composed by computation (in which case knowing the charset is not
>possible) or by derivation from the filesystem (in which case it will use
>whatever charset the filesystem uses, and in any case has no way of
>determining whether or not that charset is UTF-8).

I don't know if you can just rule out filesystems just like that.
I can imagine networked filesystems that span hosts that would have,
or need to have, the locale stored at the mountpoint.
	/r$

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