- From: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
- Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 03:09:11 +0800 (CST)
- To: xml-editor@w3.org
- cc: w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org, w3c-xml-core-wg@w3.org
On Wed, 12 Apr 100, John Cowan wrote: > ... is there going to be a way to label those encodings properly, or not? > Prohibition just isn't a viable strategy: education (of the receiver, > who is free to reject the funny encoding) is. If Johnny User decides to be ultra careful, and labels his UTF-16XX data with a BOM in the right order and with an encoding header that says the right thing, we must not disqualify that document just because some pre-XML RFC gives outdated rules. If there is some contradiction with the wording, request a change in the RFC, don't penalize users trying to do the right thing. XML only goes as far as saying, currently, that if the user does the right thing, all will be well. It does not guarantee interoperability, merely that there won't be spurious interoperability, if the user has done the right thing. We shouldn't allow things where the user has to be concerned about doing too much labelling. Rick Jelliffe Academia Sinica
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