- From: Alan Kent <ajk@mds.rmit.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:35:12 +1100
- To: www-zig@w3.org
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 09:13:20AM -0500, Johan Zeeman wrote: > DC by itself is not a record syntax; it is a list of data elements. To be a > record syntax, the data elements need to be encoded using some scheme. The > one I know about is XML. And XML explicitly uses UTF-8. > > j. Just to clarify, do you mean the XML record syntax in Z39.50 explicitly uses UTF-8? XML itself certainly *does not* explicitly use UTF-8. That is simply what is common. People do use other encodings with XML (UTF-16 for example is completely valid and in usage - for example when using Chinese or other scripts, UTF-16 encoded files are much smaller than the same UTF-8 encoded files). I was just curious (without re-reading the XML record syntax) whether it was a Z39.50 decree that the XML record syntax mandates UTF-8 encoding. Thanks, Alan
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