Re: Concrete syntax, character sets

To: tbray@textuality.com
Subject: Re: Concrete syntax, character sets
From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 14:20:30 GMT
CC: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
From w3c-sgml-wg-request@www10.w3.org Wed Sep 11 10: 21:37 1996
In-reply-to: <2.2.32.19960910205116.019a5678@pop.intergate.bc.ca> (message from Tim Bray on Tue, 10 Sep 1996 13:51:16 -0700)

> All XML documents will be encoded entirely in UTF8, data and markup.
> An XML processor will not perform any conversions on the data or markup, but 
> will pass the data and markup to applications as they appear in the document.

UTF-8 is an *encoding*. I cannot agree to fixing the encoding. I can
agree (easily) to fixing the syntax to use ISO 10646.

The model I have in mind is:

  author       transmission      soh           parser    application
   SJIS ---------------------> [SJIS->IR] --------------------------->   

where "soh" stand for "Storage Object Handler" and "IR" stands for
"Internal Representation". If the *parser internal* representation is
UTF-8, the so be it, though I myself would probably use 16bit wchar_t.

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