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Elliotte Rusty Harold 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. > > > > This is a good idea. Maybe we can fix this part of the problem in the > context of XML 1.0 without changing the spec. We'd need to define a > new encoding of Unicode such as IBD-8. IBD-8 would be identical to > UTF-8 except that normal UTF-8 representation of the NEL character > would be mapped to the linefeed. > <snip/> > And of course if UTF-8 isn't the variant that IBM wants, they can > have IBD-16 (UTF-16), IBD4 (UCS4) etc. The encodings would be > identical except that XML-aware tools would either translate the NEL > characters to linefeeds or throw an error because they don't > recognize the encoding. I think this might make everyone happy. Does > anyone see a problem with this? Elliotte, I think the good people at IANA [1] would treat this request with the scorn which you have poured onto Blueberry. Regards ~Rob [1] http://www.iana.org/
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