Re: <draft-hoffman-char-lang-media-01.txt>

Maybe what Martin and I are reflecting is an SGML-slanted preference for
terminology, but for backup on why one should not simply call CHARSET the
"character set" see for example:

 HTML Document Representation
 http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/charset.html#encodings

"character encoding" is fine.

Al

At 12:07 PM 7/27/99 +0100, Graham Klyne wrote:
>At 17:50 26/07/99 -0400, Al Gilman wrote:
>
>>>>Summary of the media feature indicated by this feature tag:
>>>>    Ability to display particular charsets as defined in [CHARSET]
>>>
>>>Also:
>>>
>>># When used to describe a document or data resource, indicates that
>>># the character set is used by the resource.
>>
>>Do we want to say "document encoding" and not "character set" here?
>>Suggest change to 
>>
>># the indicated document encoding is used in serving the resource.
>
>Er, excuse me for being slow, but I'm not sure what is meant by "document
>encoding" here.  This feature tag is specifically about "charset" handling.
>
>(If you are referring to use of UTF-8, then I have read --I forget where--
>that this is regarded as a character set for these purposes.  (In the
>charset registration reference?)
>
>Would "character encoding" capture your intent?
>
>#g
>
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>Graham Klyne
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