RE: [WSUS] Sec 2.1.x Data Integrity --- does Unicode gurantees characterencoding interoperability?

Hello Kuro,

At 10:36 03/01/08 -0800, Kurosaka, Teruhiko wrote:

>Kentaroh-san,
>Thank you for considering my comments.
>
> > 2.1.2.2
> > XML Japanese profile document [XML-JP] describes considerations about 
> an ambiguities in code conversion
> > between Unicode and non-Unicode encodings.
>
>[XML-JP] is an excellent summary of problems we face today but it does not 
>suggest
>a solution to them.  Perhaps we should suggest something better beyond 
>pointing
>to this document (if we can come up with somethinig better:-)

My understanding is that 'use utf-8' is a solution. I think
we are already proposing that. The other solution that XML-JP
is proposing is to register separate 'charset' labels for
each of the variants. I think there was an attempt for actual
registration, but it hasn't been followed through. Do you think
that would be a solution? Another solution would be to get the
various system vendors to adjust their conversion tables.


> >SOAP bindings and interfaces must handle both UTF-8 and UTF-16
> > unicode encodings. In order to use interoperable encoding among service 
> nodes,
> >UTF-8 or UTF-16 are used for SOAP message.
>
>I would like to share my recent "discovery".  Our field peple told me that
>there are PDA-type or embeded device SOAP clients in Japan that only support
>Shift_JIS !
>This is obviously violation of XML spec, but the reality is such
>devices exist.  The manufactures probably chose to violate the spec because
>of the resource constraints.  Should we mention such situation?

Can you tell us any examples? If you don't want to tell everybody,
can you tell me personally? I would like to contact the manufacturers
and talk with them.

I think mentioning is okay, but we have to be careful how we do it.

Regards,   Martin.

Received on Wednesday, 8 January 2003 15:25:39 UTC