Re: SPEC - Text

Chris Marrin (cmarrin@ariel.engr.sgi.com)
Tue, 18 Apr 1995 19:02:45 -0700

> I freely admit to not knowing much about all this, but what if we create
all
> these fields, set defaults for the ones most designers won't use, and
leave
> implementation levels up to browser designers? If someone wants to
design both
> a browser and a series of VRML models using Mandarin, the mechanism will
be
> there.

I would HATE to have the above implementation. As I said before, there
are lots of ways to do this (I like the above method the least of all I
know about), so we should leave everything above support for the single
encoding of ISO8859-1 (ISO-LATIN-1) for after 1.0 time frame.

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