Amelia A Lewis wrote:
> In short, the C0 characters have no universal interpretation;
> interpretation depends upon the application. It seems reasonable, then,
> that the application can encode the bloody things too. Can't use XML
> mechanisms. Base64, the usual suggestion, incurs an immense overhead.
I agree with the leading sentences. As for the last, Base64 encodes
3 bytes as 4, thus incurring exactly 33% overhead. Whether that
is considered "immense" depends on your application scenario. -Tim
