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Re: Specifying a Unicode subset

• To: tblanchard@m...
• Subject: Re: Specifying a Unicode subset
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 12:27:15 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: xml-dev@l..., gustaf.liljegren@x... (Gustaf Liljegren)
• In-reply-to: <AF104122-E511-11D6-BFB3-0030657E2F34@m...> from "tblanchard@m..." at Oct 21, 2002 06:25:16 PM

tblanchard@m... scripsit:

> Lets move on.  UTF-8 is your transfer encoding, use UCS-2 in memory 
> (unless planning to process ancient Sumerian or something - then use 
> UCS-4) and lets all move on to something remotely interesting.

In CJK environments, using UTF-16 for transfer makes sense, because UTF-8
imposes a 50% growth in the size of native-language characters.
That's basically why XML requires both UTF-8 and UTF-16 support of all
conforming parsers.

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