- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 13:35:48 -0500
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org, Jon Hanna <jon@hackcraft.net>
At 10:09 AM -0800 3/8/04, Tim Bray wrote: >I don't think charmod should have a SHOULD in favor either of >single-encoding or UTF-8/16. I think it should point out that each >alternative is a good choice in lots of situations. -Tim > > Given that "All XML processors MUST accept the UTF-8 and UTF-16 encodings of Unicode" (XML 1.1 spec, section 2.2) I can't quite see the reason why any protocol would choose to forbid either of these. Let people work with whichever one seems most convenient to them locally. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
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