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Re: internationalization/ISO10646 question - UTF-16

From: Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 16:50:57 +0100
To: Francois Yergeau <FYergeau@alis.com>
Cc: Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>, charsets <ietf-charsets@iana.org>
Message-id: <20021224155057.GA17492@rap.rap.dk> 

On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 08:57:26AM -0500, Francois Yergeau wrote:
> 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.

I stand corrected. Thanks for the clarification, and Happy Xmas to all!

Best regards
keld
Received on Tuesday, 24 December 2002 10:51:40 GMT

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