CUA capabilities (was Re: Heirarchical error codes)

[John Stracke <francis@xxxxxxxx>]

(Clarification: when I referred to Latin1 text, I didn't mean the encoding, I
meant the characters themselves, regardless of how they're encoded.)

Doug Royer wrote:

> As for languages, there is no way to store multiple LANG 'DESCRIPTION'
> or 'SUMMARY'.

(a) Sure there is--the protocol may not specify a way to transport them, but
you can store whatever you want.

(b) I suspect that iMIP might be able to express it with multipart/alternative
(you wouldn't necessarily want to send it to someone unless you know they can
handle it, since m/a isn't a mandatory part of MIME; but it can be done).

> A user might
> not be able to understand the text as sent to the CS, but the CUA MUST
> be able to understand the UTF-8 text.

Not going to happen--the CUA can handle it internally, sure, but most of the
computers in the world simply do not have the fonts to render every single
character in Unicode.

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