Ira,
No one ever, *ever* said I18N in mail messages wasn't difficult.
Don't know how you came to that conclusion.
In fact, with the exception of Tom Hastings (big surprise),
there hasn't been a word said on this thread by anyone
else about I18N in email notifications, except for your
comments and the interesting side comment by Ned.
...jay
"McDonald, Ira" wrote:
>
> Hi Ned,
>
> Thanks - you're the only person who has reinforced my
> periodic comments that the I18N for the stuff in the
> 'simple text' email notifications is a nice juicy
> problem - since IPP and most (or all?) shipping IPP
> Printer implementations define support for multiple
> human languages and charsets.
>
> And the fact that a client can ask for a notification
> in some other charset than UTF-8 further complicates
> I18N, because the obvious starting point (message
> catalogs in UTF-8) leads to smashed characters in
> many local charsets.
>
> I think the IPP 'mailto:' notification method should
> be a good deal more complete on this I18N topic.
>
> Cheers,
> - Ira McDonald, consulting architect at Xerox and Sharp
> High North Inc
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ned.freed@innosoft.com [mailto:ned.freed@innosoft.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 8:21 AM
> To: pmoore@peerless.com
> Cc: David_Kellerman@nls.com; kugler@us.ibm.com; ipp@pwg.org
> Subject: Re: IPP>NOT mailto feature from IETF meeting (RE: IPP> ADM -
> TheIPPNotification I-Ds will now go the IESG)]
>
> <...snip...>
>
> Frankly, the bigger problem with this stuff is i18n support for the text.
> But that's a different topic.
>
> IMO the supposed difference between simple text and a structured report is a
> chimera. Email support in general is another matter, of course.
>
> Ned
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