Re: Fwd: [xml-dev] Quiz: How do you put a Euro sign in your data if your

[Hermann Stamm-Wilbrandt <STAMMW@de.ibm.com>]

> My questions is; Is there a use case or any good reason to use
> anything but UTF-8?
>
I do use UTF-8 whenever possible.

But as others responded already sometime UTF-16 may be useful.

Perhaps restricting to UTF-* only encodings would be best as here:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4627#section-3


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On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Michael Sokolov
<msokolov@safaribooksonline.com> wrote:

> The advice I always give is: use (and demand) UTF-8 everywhere and
anywhere
> that you can.  Don't use named entities ever (actually this has nothing
to
> do with character sets, but it's still my position :)).

I tend to agree with this, Michael.

My questions is; Is there a use case or any good reason to use
anything but UTF-8?



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