[JDEV] charsets (was: Protocol extension?)

[Lindsay.Marshall at newcastle.ac.uk]

> I think you misunderstood me. Replying to existing messages is easy:
> the client should assume that you're answering in the same language as
> the sender had in his message. However, every time you send a new
> message, it's kind of dangerous to assume any language. I myself is a
> typical example. I will probably write about half the messages in
> swedish and half in english. This would mean that if the client used
> the locale or some default value, it would be wrong about half the
> time, and I would have to fiddle with some pesky "select language"
> { drop down list | command line paramter } about half the time.
> However, if the roster info contained the *user's* locale, my client
> could guess on that and be right most of the time.
> 
> Come to think of it, this would help bots and the like too, in that
> they could talk to people in their native language. It would
> definitively be nice if the roster info included preferred language
> and probably charset as well.

This sounds like a sensible suggestion. (However I still think that the
language attribute should be included elsewhere as well in case people
want to use it)

> I was refering to the business of *selecting* language for a message.
> The protocol in itself should definitively have the feature.

Ah OK - my mistake.

L.
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