Internationalization

"Joel M. Halpern" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.forces
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The Forces LFB definition allows LFBs to include strings.  That seems 
pretty useful.
However, that seems to raise the i18n question.  We probably need to 
say something about this.
For the properties section, I am declaring that the string length is in octets.

Currently, the actual definition says that strings are null terminated ASCII.
That is liable to get us in trouble.
But allowing multi-byte characters, and other things, is going to get 
us into termination problems.

Now, string are always shipped with lengths.  So we could get rid of 
the null termination.
And we could define them to be UTF-8, and declare that the length is 
the maximum number of octets, not the maximum number of characters.

I don't know if that is sufficient.  But it would probably help.

Feedback ASAP.  This will affect progression of the document.  There 
are folks out there who watch very carefully for this sort of issue.

Yours,
Joel
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