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Re: UTF-8 & Unicode

From: richard@------.--.--.-- (------- -----)
To: 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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