- From: Johnny Stenback <jst@w3c.jstenback.com>
- Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 22:55:06 -0700
- To: Francois Yergeau <FYergeau@alis.com>
- Cc: "'www-dom@w3.org'" <www-dom@w3.org>, "'w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org'" <w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org>
Francois Yergeau wrote: [...] >>>LS8) It should be specified that DOMSerializers MUST be >> >>able to serialize in >> >>>UTF-8 and both byte-orders of UTF-16, to close the loop >> >>with XML parsers >> >>>which are obligated to read these. >> >>The DOM WG decided against requiring support for all of those >>encodings, >>but it did decide to require support for one or more of those >>encodins. > > > While this is sufficient for strict interoperability, it is not for > compatibility of code. If there is not at least one required encoding, it > is not possible to write a DOM program that will work over any DOM > implementation. We insist that at least UTF-8 be required. Furthermore, > since XML 1.0 did it back in 1998, it cannot be so onerous to require all 3. > Please reconsider. Agreed, the spec now requires that those 3 encodings must be supported when dealing with XML data. -- jst
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