Re: I18N issues with the XML Specification

MURATA Makoto wrote:
 
> RFC 2871 is already an RFC.  In my understanging, people are
> trying to throw away the BOM by introducing charset names "utf-16le"
> and "utf-16be".

Some people have already thrown away the BOM.  RFC 2871 introduces
names for the results of doing so.

> If the handling of UTF-16LE/UTF-16BE is mandatory, the XML processor
> is required to handle new octet sequences.  I do not think all exising
> processors can handle "<?xml encoding="UTF-16LE"?>" in UTF-16LE.

No processor can be required to handle UTF-16LE/BE, only UTF-16 (and UTF-8).
 
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Received on Thursday, 6 April 2000 12:31:01 UTC