- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 01:01:45 -0400
- To: dgd@cs.bu.edu
- CC: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
> + FFFE is already established in Unicode, so many multi-byte systems >will have text-editors that can deal with the initial FFFE. Right, but it's not necessary for the header. I can agree to using this *after* the header has been stripped off... > + Generic text-editing tools will almost certainly turn the user's view >of a US-ASCII header into garbage on multibyte systems, but would not turn >ISO character codes <127 into garbage. Well, given that ISO and US-ASCII share most of the same code points, it seems that this is unlikely. As I noted, the only problem is for pure 16-bit encodings, which are reasonable scarce. > + Many people will want to edit XML with generic text-editors on their >systems in their native character codes. Most of which use 8 bit multibyte encodings that are ASCII compatible. I could be convinced that allowing 16bit header encodings makes sense, as I don't feel *too* strongly about it. However, losing MIME compatability seems a waste.
Received on Tuesday, 22 October 1996 01:03:23 UTC