Re: Embedded Content from Nick Stenning on 2014-10-14 (public-annotation@w3.org from October 2014)

From: Nick Stenning <nick@whiteink.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 19:37:47 +0200
To: public-annotation@w3.org
Message-Id: <1413308267.1220351.178921625.16F9C431@webmail.messagingengine.com>

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014, at 18:58, Doug Schepers wrote:
> Hi, Rob–
> 
> Small comment...
> 
> On 10/14/14 12:08 PM, Robert Sanderson wrote:
> >
> > And my concerns with characterEncoding:
> >
> > 4.  The encoding should be UTF-8 regardless.
> 
> UTF-8 is not always sufficient. For some Asian scripts, you sometimes 
> need UTF-16.

UTF-8 can encode any unicode code point. UTF-16 may be more space
efficient for Japanese, Chinese, Thai, characters, but you don't "need"
UTF-8 in order to encode those scripts.

But Doug probably knows things I don't. Do some user agents not support
asian script codepoint entry in UTF-8?

-N

Received on Tuesday, 14 October 2014 17:38:12 UTC