- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@apache.org>
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 15:18:18 -0700
- To: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "WWW-Tag" <www-tag@w3.org>
> How does it then follow that people should use ASCII? Is it not > obvious > that Chinese will soon bypass English+French+German as the dominant > character-encoding for information on the web? No, that is not obvious. Maybe you should ask someone who is Chinese about the effect of a global market on communication, but that is besides the point. Presenting information in many different languages is one of the primary reasons that people buy my company's software, so that is obviously very important. However, we are not talking about the information that is presented -- we are talking about the identifiers used to route people towards that information, and in particular the identifiers used to denote a namespace for internal processing by an XML engine. As such, any speculation about the preferred language of the human audience simply does not apply. ASCII is still the lowest common denominator, even when it is being used to phonetically describe non-English words. ....Roy
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