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

Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

Code bloat is not the only reason, the point is I don't want to force 
implementors to write code they know they don't care about, for whatever 
reason (code bloat, implementation time, QA resources, you name it).

-- 
jst

Received on Saturday, 20 September 2003 14:02:21 UTC