The one that I think is much more interesting - which we did not drill
into - is keyword values for attributes. I still have those as 2 byte
enumerations. I think this is the right thing to do and Tom agreed at
the meeting but there was not a lot of discusion.
Eg Operation has two values 1 (which means Validate) and 2 (meaning
printjob).
DocumentFormat uses the rfc1759 values
etc.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Isaacson [SMTP:SISAACSON@novell.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 1997 9:32 AM
> To: hastings@cp10.es.xerox.com; Robert.Herriot@Eng.Sun.COM; Paul
> Moore
> Cc: ipp@pwg.org
> Subject: IPP> Re: Unsigned integer count for attribute name
> keywordsandattribute values
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> >>> Robert Herriot <Robert.Herriot@Eng.Sun.COM> 05/20 1:37 PM >>>
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> > Did we agree to one or two bytes for the length of attribute names?
> I
> > thought two, just in case we ever use Unicode rather than UTF-8 to
> > encode attribute names. We wouldn't want the attributes to then be
> > limited to 127 characters.
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> I thought all lengths would be 2 or 4 bytes, never just 1. I thought
> we
> limited attribute names to be the same as keywords now: US ASCII
> characters
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> the
> consequences of not being able to internationalize these attribute
> names,
> but why are you suggesting maybe someday worrying about UTF-8 for
> attribute
> names?
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