- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 13:09:37 +0100
- To: Jon Hanna <jon@hackcraft.net>
- Cc: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
Jon Hanna wrote: > Quoting Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>: > ... > However I agree with Tim's argument that allowing a choice of UTF-8 or UTF-16 to > be made by an author or producing application (and hence mandating that the two > be differentiated and handled by the consuming application) is a good practice > and should be allowed by the charmod rules. As far as I understand, UTF-16 may perform (in terms of size) much better for asian languages, so it seems that it makes a lot of sense if protocols can choose UTF-8 vs UTF-16 based on what makes most sense for the document content. Julian -- <green/>bytes GmbH -- http://www.greenbytes.de -- tel:+492512807760
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