[JDEV] Protocol extension?

[Thomas D. Charron]

>>   I MAY be mistaken here, but I BELIEVE that the character set is passed along with the leading <XML> tag, defining the version and charset that the datastream will use.  The ability would be proccessed and left o the expat library...
>Marking the character set on the XML tag is not good enough.  I may
>login and there may be several messages waiting for me, each of them
>encoded in a different character set. How are you going to deal with
>that? Fine, set a global encoding on the XML line, but I do think that
>it ought to be possible to somehow override this for an individual
>message (or nickname in fact)

  Hrm, I see your point..  What about designating that the only valid char set for use within jabber be either iso or unicode?  I really haven't delved into using mutliple char sets within ANY programs, so your most likely ahead of me as far as knowledge of the actual requirments are concerned..

>BTW I couldn;t get the tcl/tk client to download so I wrote my own this
>afternoon. It's called Stiletto and is about 75% done - I can login and
>receive and send messages. I haven't got to grips with some of the
>other stuff yet so that isn't handled until I can find some
>documentation....

  I mailed you the zabber sources just now.. ;-P
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Thomas Charron




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