Re: [www-font] WOFF metadata - should we require (rather than recommend) the use of UTF-8?

On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 16:13:12 +1200
"Robert O'Callahan" <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote:

>On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:03 PM, <mpsuzuki@hiroshima-u.ac.jp> wrote:
>>
>>> "Anything" is too broad to understand... Excuse me,
>>> could you give me a concrete example of the system
>>> or usecase that consumes WOFF but has some difficulty
>>> to handle an XML in UTF-16?
>>>
>>
>> Jonathan already gave an example in his first message.
>
>
>Hmm, maybe that example wasn't clear enough.

Yes, just I was going to write to Jonathan for
detailed description. Thank you very much.

>What Jonathan is actually doing is creating
>a Javascript API that returns a string containing
>the WOFF metadata. So that code isn't going
>to be parsing the XML, but it does need to
>know the encoding so the text can be correctly
>converted to a Javascript string.

I see. The requirement comes from non-XML field.
The description "well-formed" came from similar
usecase?

>Any consumer that needs to convert the WOFF
>metadata to some kind of string (and isn't
>immediately parsing the XML) will have the same
>problem.

Indeed.

Regards,
mpsuzuki

Received on Wednesday, 1 June 2011 04:39:08 UTC