Re: i18n reviews of DOM 3 Core and Load&Save

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.


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   Elliotte Rusty Harold
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   Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
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Received on Saturday, 20 September 2003 10:12:16 UTC