Re: Support for binary encodings and MIME types

From: Clive Page <cgp-at-star.le.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 09:07:46 +0100 (BST)


> Guy Rixon wrote:
> > my understanding is that most VOTable libraries still only support TABLEDATA
> > encoding of the table and not FITS or BINARY.
>
> Yes...

But TOPCAT handles all encodings - and can convert to other formats. So perhaps a solution would be to send VOTABLE/BINARY with a short note pointing out how to acquire TOPCAT? (Another small boost for British software).

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Clive Page
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Received on 2005-09-08Z10:08:22