RE: encoding specification in the syntax document?

Hello,

The strings in the structural specification are in UCS (see Section 2), and the IRIs are just like in the respective specs. Hence,
it seems to me that the structural specification is unambiguous regarding this point.

Now it is true that we don't specify how to encode documents containing an ontology written in functional-style syntax. We could add
a sentence that people SHOULD use UTF-8 for that purpose. If everyone agrees, we can call this an editorial change and I can just do
it.

Regards,

	Boris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ivan Herman [mailto:ivan@w3.org]
> Sent: 26 August 2008 16:32
> To: Boris Motik
> Cc: W3C OWL Working Group
> Subject: encoding specification in the syntax document?
> 
> Boris,
> 
> while looking at the UCS vs Unicode question (to be discussed
> separately) a question came up: what is exactly the situation with the
> functional syntax? It does not say whether the ontology is defined using
> UCS or Unicode (let us put aside for a moment which one) and which
> encoding is used. Shouldn't it be said somewhere?
> 
> Of course the fact that it uses Unicode is, sort of, indirectly there:
> it uses IRI and the literals' lexical spaces are, I presume, all in
> UCS/Unicode (does it say in the XML Schema doc? Probably). But it is
> better to make it explicit.
> 
> But the encoding issue still remains. We could say that it is encoded in
> UTF-8 (this is what Turtle does, for example), or we could specify that
> UTF-8 is the default and introduce another thingy in the grammar to
> possibly override that. I personally do not see an issue in sticking to
> UTF-8 (although it is not an efficient encoding for Asian languages...).
> But we should say it somewhere...
> 
> Did I miss something?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Ivan
> 
> 
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