RE: Reviewed charmod fundamentals

Quoting Misha Wolf <Misha.Wolf@reuters.com>:

> 
> You are assuming that protocols carry documents.  Lots of 
> protocols carry small discrete snippets of text in separate 
> 'fields'.  In such cases, there seems no point in allowing 
> multiple encodings.

I'm assuming that there are one or more protocols that do carry documents, and
hence would benefit from allowing both UTF-8 and UTF-16.

-- 
Jon Hanna
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"…it has been truly said that hackers have even more words for
equipment failures than Yiddish has for obnoxious people." - jargon.txt

Received on Monday, 8 March 2004 07:28:44 UTC