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   RE: Feeler for SML (Simple Markup Language)

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  • From: "Don Park" <donpark@docuverse.com>
  • To: <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
  • Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 08:08:48 -0800

>The UTF-8 restriction is the only one in your original list that really
>worries me. There will be a lot of "data" transactions going around the
>world with "foreign" (i.e. non-Western) names and descriptions 
>in them.  It would seem that there's an argument to be made for putting
>support for UTF-16 (at a minimum) in the parser rather than force the 
>applications to do the UTF-8 encodings ...

Heh.  Looks like we are already running into the consensus problem
the XML Syntax Working Group ran into while working on Simplified XML.

Best,

Don Park    -   mailto:donpark@docuverse.com
Docuverse   -   http://www.docuverse.com


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