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RE: internationalization/ISO10646 question - UTF-16

From: Francois Yergeau <FYergeau@alis.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 08:57:26 -0500
To: Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>
Cc: charsets <ietf-charsets@iana.org>
Message-id: <F7D4BDA0E5A1D14B99D32C022AEB7366A50358@alis-2k.alis.domain> 

Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> One wonders why W3C made UTF-16 the encoding of choice for XML.

One wonders where such misconceptions come from.  The default encoding in
XML is UTF-8.  It's hard to see how "the encoding of choice for XML" can
differ from the default.

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François
Received on Tuesday, 24 December 2002 09:00:28 GMT

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