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Re: XML character sets: a proposal
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To: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
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Subject: Re: XML character sets: a proposal
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From: bbauma1@cs.umbc.edu
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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 22:02:25 +0000
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CC: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
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Comments: Authenticated sender is <bbauma1@cs.umbc.edu>
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From w3c-sgml-wg-request@www10.w3.org Thu Sep 12 22: 10:59 1996
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Priority: normal
> As you, and many other must also be aware, UNICODE doesn't solve the
> worlds problems either, just 95% of the more common ones ;-) We have
> to think of XML being used to deliver things like the classical
> buddhist texts, dead languages, etc.
>
Even live languages. I've got some of these documents, and I would hate to see XML
disallow the character encodings I need to use. Gavin's right,
using UTF-8 as a default and / or suggested encoding and including it
in a reference implementation is one thing. Prohibiting the use of
other character encodings is to restrictive. Wether through MIME and
/ or through FSI's, XML has to be extensible in this regard.
> I think it would be quite hard to guarantee that all XML systems will
> be able to meaningfully interpret any arbitrary XML document
> anyway.
Your not kidding. Even basic rendering in a browser can be quite
difficult.
B. Todd Bauman
Graduate Student
University of Maryland, Baltimore County