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- From: James Hester <jamesrhester@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:32:04 +1000
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Hi John: you are correct, I indeed meant Unicode, not UTF8, and certainly would not want to allow control over encoding to be defined on a per-item basis. I am working on a response to your most recent proposal, but considerable research is required. I'll try not to make it a blockbuster this time! On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 1:48 AM, Bollinger, John C <John.Bollinger@stjude.org> wrote: > James, > > On Thursday, September 16, 2010 8:54 AM, James Hester wrote: > [...] >>For my part, I think the IUCr could handle manuscript submissions as follows: > > For the most part I think your suggestions are reasonable (and so I omit them), but I hope you will clarify one of them: > >>(iii) UTF8 introduction can be staged relatively slowly, starting from >>allowing it in a few non-essential datanames (e.g. defining >>_author_name_native_script or somesuch). Let's remember that on day 1 >>everything can still be ASCII as the dictionaries will be able to >>restrict character sets to ASCII > > Are you suggesting that the character encoding of individual data values be configurable in the dictionary? I suspect and hope that where you wrote "UTF8", you meant something more like "Unicode" -- i.e. the set of allowed (literal) characters, not their encoding. Is that right? > > If UTF-8 emerges as the only permitted encoding for CIF2 then this will be a mainly semantic difference, but it nevertheless has implications for software design and behavior. If UTF-8 does *not* emerge as the only permitted encoding for CIF2 then this will be a tremendous difference. > > > Best, > > John > -- > John C. Bollinger, Ph.D. > Department of Structural Biology > St. Jude Children's Research Hospital > > > Email Disclaimer: www.stjude.org/emaildisclaimer > > _______________________________________________ > cif2-encoding mailing list > cif2-encoding@iucr.org > http://scripts.iucr.org/mailman/listinfo/cif2-encoding > -- T +61 (02) 9717 9907 F +61 (02) 9717 3145 M +61 (04) 0249 4148 _______________________________________________ cif2-encoding mailing list cif2-encoding@iucr.org http://scripts.iucr.org/mailman/listinfo/cif2-encoding
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- Re: [Cif2-encoding] Splitting of imgCIF and other sub-topics (James Hester)
- Re: [Cif2-encoding] Splitting of imgCIF and other sub-topics (Herbert J. Bernstein)
- Re: [Cif2-encoding] Splitting of imgCIF and other sub-topics (James Hester)
- Re: [Cif2-encoding] Splitting of imgCIF and other sub-topics (Herbert J. Bernstein)
- Re: [Cif2-encoding] Splitting of imgCIF and other sub-topics. . (Bollinger, John C)
- Re: [Cif2-encoding] Splitting of imgCIF and other sub-topics. . (James Hester)
- Re: [Cif2-encoding] Splitting of imgCIF and other sub-topics. .. . (Bollinger, John C)
- Re: [Cif2-encoding] Splitting of imgCIF and other sub-topics. .. . (SIMON WESTRIP)
- Re: [Cif2-encoding] Splitting of imgCIF and other sub-topics. .. . (Herbert J. Bernstein)
- Re: [Cif2-encoding] Splitting of imgCIF and other sub-topics. .. . (Herbert J. Bernstein)
- Re: [Cif2-encoding] Splitting of imgCIF and other sub-topics. .. . (Brian McMahon)
- Re: [Cif2-encoding] Splitting of imgCIF and other sub-topics. .. . (SIMON WESTRIP)
- Re: [Cif2-encoding] Splitting of imgCIF and other sub-topics. .. . (James Hester)
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