> [...] HTTP claims that the default is iso-8859-1 - which is a pain, because > for XML the default is Unicode. This sets up a conflict :( > > [...] I hope Richard Ishida or someone very versed in these issues can > help clarify. According to Richard Ishida [1]: 'For XML and HTML (from version 4.0 onwards) the document character set is defined to be the Universal Character Set (UCS) as defined by both ISO/IEC 10646 and Unicode standards. (For simplicity and in line with common practice, we will refer to the UCS here simply as Unicode.)' Best regards, Jens. [1] http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc.html (see 'What is the Document Character Set?') -- Jens Meiert Interface Architect http://meiert.com/Received on Wednesday, 4 February 2004 05:46:34 UTC
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