On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 11:09:29PM -0700, Doug Ewell <dewell at adelphia.net> wrote a message of 29 lines which said: > The multiple-value problem (for example, Description) is one reason we > abandoned the bar-delimited format. We would have had to choose one > ISO-provided description and ignore the rest: > > language | es | Spanish | 2005-10-16 | Latn | | > > or else use a subfield delimiter and pray it never appeared in real > descriptions: > > language | es | Spanish; Castilian | 2005-10-16 | Latn | | Or escape it, which is better than praying :-) Do note that, if you don't require round-trip perfection, non-escaping is perfectly valid, for instance: language | nv | Navajo / Navaho | 2005-10-16 | cannot be translated back to the record-jar registry (if / appears somewhere) but it may be a non-issue. _______________________________________________ Ltru mailing list Ltru at ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ltru
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