- From: MURATA Makoto <murata@hokkaido.email.ne.jp>
- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:08:11 +0900
- To: "WWW-Tag" <www-tag@w3.org>, ietf-xml-mime@imc.org
> > I'm just saying UTF-8 everywhere is even more unrealistic than any > > other options at hand. > > Too bad, because it's the only option that's remotely practical in the > long term. Do you really think every programmer who wants to mung text > is going to include code that supports not only the hundreds of extant > character encodings but also the seventeen kinds of in-band and > out-of-band declarations of them? I think that persuading users is more difficult than persuading programmers. I have encouraged use of Unicode for XML in Japan, but nothing has happened. Cheers, -- MURATA Makoto <murata@hokkaido.email.ne.jp>
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