RE: MDN usage question.

[MAEDA toru <maeda.toru@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Why do not we put the supported Character set
in the capabilities of receiver and transmitter.


Regrads,

Toru Maeda


At 01:03 01/03/14 -0500, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
> At 16:18 -0800 on 03/12/2001, McIntyre, Lloyd wrote about RE: MDN usage 
> question.:
>
> >  > Example:  if an offramp gateway receives a "text/plain;
> > >  charset=iso-8859-1"
> > >  message but the fax offramp is only capable of US-ASCII, you
> > >  would want the
> > >  message rejected?  What if the message contained all ASCII
> > >  characters (that
> > >  is, no characters that weren't in both US-ASCII and ISO-8859-1?
> > Again I would recommend processing and rendering with the resident charset,
> > however, a notice should be returned to the sender notifying that
> > information may have been lost due to the mismatch. This is what is realized
> > with the proposal, in this case the disposition modifier could be something
> > like
> >   disposition=processed/error:image rendered with different character set"
>
> ONLY if there is one or more High-ASCII Characters in the message. So long 
> as the ACTUAL Character set is US-ASCII (ie: Only x00-x7F codepoints occur 
> in the message) just claiming to be ISO-8859-1 (or even UTF-8 <g>) is NOT 
> IMO a reason to send this erroneous error message.

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MAEDA TORU
MIE Development Div. 2
CANON Inc.
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