- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:33:34 +0900
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>, "McDonald, Ira" <imcdonald@sharplabs.com>
- Cc: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, www-international@w3.org, phoffman@imc.org
At 00:03 01/06/09 +0200, Chris Lilley wrote: >"McDonald, Ira" wrote: > > XML which is encoded in UTF-8 is > > perfectly safe to serve as "text/xml" and SHOULD be. > >XML which is encoded in UTF-8 and XML which is encoded in UTF-16 can >both omit the encoding declaration. The server will have a hard time >telling them apart. No, it won't really have that a hard time. It just has to look at the first two bytes of the file. But most servers don't suppor such a thing very well these days, so in some sense, you are right. >In addition, since both UTF-8 and UTF-16 are >required to be supported, software might well convert between these two >encodings based on, for example, whichever gives the smaller file size. They of course can do that. But it's not very frequently done, as far as I know. It's probably much easier for a server to always serve things in the same encoding. Regards, Martin.
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