Re: Reviewed charmod fundamentals

On Mar 8, 2004, at 4:20 AM, Misha Wolf wrote:

> 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.

Absolutely.  I think that there are some situations where a 
single-encoding approach makes excellent sense, and other approaches 
where the UTF-8/16 choice is better.  I don't think one group of 
applications is much bigger or more important than the other, so I 
don't think a SHOULD in either direction is justified. -Tim