- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 08:34:13 -0400
- To: Johnny Stenback <jst@w3c.jstenback.com>
- Cc: Joseph Kesselman <keshlam@us.ibm.com>, Francois Yergeau <FYergeau@alis.com>, "'www-dom@w3.org'" <www-dom@w3.org>, www-dom-request@w3.org
At 12:27 PM -0700 9/19/03, Johnny Stenback wrote: >I'm thinking of a closed system where you know that you'll never get >anything other than UTF-8 (or whichever one you pick). In such cases >I don't want to *force* code bloat on the implementation just to be >able to claim compliance. If that's a concern pick UTF-16. Its implementation is trivial. UTF-8 is not that much harder. Both can be implemented algorithmically. I don't believe there's a significant amount of code bloat here. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA
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