# Re: New URC Specification is ready....

Michael Mealling (ccoprmm@oit.gatech.edu)
Tue, 12 Jul 1994 10:09:09 -0400 (EDT)

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    From: ccoprmm@oit.gatech.edu (Michael Mealling)

    Message-Id: <199407121409.AA22185@oit.gatech.edu>

    Subject: Re: New URC Specification is ready....

    To: uri@bunyip.com

    Date: Tue, 12 Jul 1994 10:09:09 -0400 (EDT)

Larry Masinter said this:
> While I think we can manage to avoid the character set issue in URNs
> and URLs, I don't think it is avoidable in URCs. In particular,
> attributes such as 'title' and 'author' will ultimately HAVE to face
> that there needs to be a character set for writing them in whatever
> human language they are actually written.

You got any suggestions?

>From the original spec from early last year I always thought that something
like this was acceptable:

[attribute_name]:[charset.iso_language_id]:[value]

This could be a general starting point for all pairs that would/could have
different character sets.

Then again you could just make the thing a multipart MIME file and let MIME
handle charset issues. This makes parsing one much much more complex which
I don't like but it is another solution...

-MM

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