I agree with changing prtGeneralPrinterName from OCTET STRING to
DisplayString.
I'm checking with Asian people to see whether
a length of 63 octets is ok for Kanji printer names that might
take 3 or 4 octets in UTF-8 for each Kanji character).
I disagree with terminating the other discussion (see previous reply).
Tom
At 08:15 07/24/97 PDT, lpyoung at lexmark.com wrote:
>>Chris and I are bringing the localization discussion to
>conclusion. There have been some side proposals that have
>come up from time to time, I wanted to separate these out
>to see if we have consensus on these proposed changes. One
>of the side proposals was to change the syntax of the
>prtGeneralPrinterName from DisplayString to OCTET STRING.
>If we want to make this change, I would propose the size
>be (0 to 63). I have checked with our networking people
>and this size covers all operating systems that we are
>aware of.
>>I know most of us are tried of reading about localization
>and answering questions about localization. The only
>answer I want back from this note is "I agree" or
>"I disagree". Please leave the subject line as stated so
>I can easily count the votes.
>Thanks,
>Lloyd
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