• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• To: "'Dave Pawson'" <davep@d...>,"'xml-dev'" <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:45:40 +0100

> What might it look like when solved? 

Well, as a minimum, a decent operating system would allow you to specify an
encoding when a file is created, and it would then insist that people
reading and writing that file use a character (rather than byte) oriented
API which ensures that the encoding and decoding are done correctly.

I'd go further than that, and say that a decent operating system would allow
you to declare a file to be XML and would then ensure that it actually is
XML.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

• References:
  • Why is Encoding Metadata (e.g. encoding="UTF-8) put Inside the XML Document?
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
  • RE: Why is Encoding Metadata (e.g. encoding="UTF-8) put Inside the XML Document?
    • From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
  • Re: Why is Encoding Metadata (e.g. encoding="UTF-8) putInside the XML Document?
    • From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@r...>
  • Re: Why is Encoding Metadata (e.g. encoding="UTF-8) putInside the XML Document?
    • From: "Rick Jelliffe" <rjelliffe@a...>
  • Re: Why is Encoding Metadata (e.g. encoding="UTF-8) putInside the XML Document?
    • From: Dave Pawson <davep@d...>