Re: MicroXML design goals

"support internationalization" sounds strange to me:
internationalization is what you do to computer software to make it
support multiple languages, cultures. Also supporting Unicode is part
of internationalization.

How about

  MicroXML shall support the needs of different languages, scripts,
and cultures; in particular, it shall support Unicode.

?

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Uche Ogbuji <uche@ogbuji.net> wrote:
> Goal #6 states:
>
> MicroXML shall support Unicode
>
> I propose expanding this to:
>
> "MicroXML shall support Unicode and internationalization"
>
> I think this would fall in line with one of the key benefits of XML that
> most would be unlikely to want to lose.
>
> One example of this is consideration of xml:lang.  There is really nothing
> in the current goals that would preclude us from removing support for
> xml:lang, but I think doing so would be such a bad thing that it' worth
> capturing the essence in the goals of why that would be such a bad thing.
>
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