Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >comp.text.xml Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - Re: UTF-8 & Unicode >Thread Next - Re: UTF-8 & Unicode Re: UTF-8 & UnicodeTo: NULL Date: 2/4/2005 3:45:00 PM In article <hsivonen-B5E062.17144204022005@n...>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@i...> wrote: >That is not a safe conclusion. XML processors are only required to >support UTF-8 and UTF-16. Support for any other encoding is an XML >processor-specific extra feature. It follows that using any encoding >other than UTF-8 or UTF-16 is unsafe. This is an exaggeration. You might as well say: XML processors are not required to support any particular URI scheme, so referring to a DTD at an HTTP URI is unsafe. >If communication fails, because >someone sent an XML document in an encoding other than UTF-8 or UTF-16, >the sender is to blame. So phone them up and ask them to change it. Not every XML document has to be instantly useful to everyone. -- Richard | ||||||
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