- From: Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 11:38:33 +0100
- To: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
- CC: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
>>>pat hayes said: > > > >I don't mind saying N-Triples is UTF-8 since I've got code around to > >do that and it comes for free with Java and Python for example. > >However it just moves the escaping to a different level and makes it > >impossible for anyone to generate unicode characters with plain text > >(ASCII that is) editors. > > ? Really? My understanding was that a key property of UTF-8 was that > 7-bit ASCII was a subset of it. One pays for the ASCII convenience by > the longer encodings of Japanese. Not just Japanese but many encodings. I'm going for US-ASCII text/plain since this is aimed mostly at developers and all characters can be expressed with a little bit of escaping. Users will have the XML syntax with the full set of XML character encoding power. Dave
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