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At 11:02 AM -0400 6/22/01, John Cowan wrote: >> If all the files using NEL start <?xml version="1.0" >>encoding="some-flavour-of-ebcdic"?> >> Then can't NEL be mapped to #10 (0r #13) in the non normative support >> for the ebcdic related encodings. This wouldn't require any change to XML. > > >But it does require two different kinds of EBCDIC mapping: one for XML, >one for every other kind of text. This is highly unsavory. > Yes, it is; but it's not nearly as unsavory as changing XML. Which tastes least bad? Remember, except for XML and occasionally HTML very few human editable document formats ask that user specify which encoding they're using. If you're using a non-XML tool that doesn't blindly assume all documents are written in the default local character set (that's 90%+ of text tools right there) then it's probably doing some heuristics based on byte-order marks and such to figure out which encoding is being used. These heuristics all still work with encoding="some-flavour-of-ebcdic" -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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