- From: Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
- Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:42:18 +0100
- To: Liam Quin <liam@w3.org>
- CC: Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>, public-ietf-w3c@w3.org, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, iesg@ietf.org, Carine Bournez <carine@w3.org>
Liam Quin wrote: >On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 10:14:57PM +0100, Alexey Melnikov wrote: > > [...] >>2). >> >> >>>The syntax of XQuery is expressed in Unicode but may be written with >>>any Unicode-compatible character encoding, including UTF-8 or UTF-16, >>>or transported as US-ASCII or Latin-1 with Unicode characters outside >>>the range of the given encoding represented using an XML-style ෝ >>>syntax. >>> >>> >>Is there any good reason for allowing Latin-1? IETF pretty much settled >>on only using US-ASCII, UTF-8 (and rarely UTF-16). >> >> >To the best of my memory it was for in response to a comment regarding >HTTP cpmpatibility, but, there is also no good reason to forbid it at >this point, with over 50 XQuery implementations in the field. > >For XQuery 1.1 we could possibly disallow Latin-1, but I don't think >we'd gain anything now. If we were still in 2005, we'd be in a >position to change such things, and I think do a better job. >Removing it could only hurt interop now I think. > > If this is done for backward compatibility, this is Ok with me. Please address Martin's concern about Latin-1 not being registered.
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