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- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- To: "Richard Anderson" <rja@arpsolutions.demon.co.uk>, <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 11:40:43 -0800
At 03:46 PM 11/13/99 -0000, Richard Anderson wrote:
>But UTF-8 can support "foreign" characters so I dont see the argument for
>having UTF-16 too. Also, generally speaking UTF-8 encoding results in
>smaller output for most cases.
The UTF-*'s are logically equivalent to most users, in that they share
the property that almost no real-world data objects are encoded in either.
One of the nice things about XML is that it allows you to store & transmit
your objects in any well-known encoding as long as you declare it. I'm
delighted to observe that most of the real-world XML processors out there
effortlessly deal with various ISO-Latins and JIS and so on. -T.
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