[JDEV] charsets (was: Protocol extension?)

[patrick]

> 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 is probably more of a profile issue. The Jabber protocol
doesn't really get into this area - because you could also specify your
age, because that could be relevant, or anything, really. What isn't
neccessary for clients to understand a message shouldn't be in the
protocol, but rather in a user profile stored with a separate mechanism,
such as LDAP, which is very good for this sort of thing.

	There'll be a need for a jabber registry, or more than one,
anyway.


Patrick

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