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Tim Bray wrote "Base64 (a 4-for-3 encoding) wastes 33%, so I thought about perhaps inventing Base128 (8-for-7) or maybe even a higher level to cut down wasteage, but Base64 has the advantage that it avoids UTF8/ISO-8859 confusion and I bet Mr. LZW will eat that 33% anyhow..." The thing to consider here is that, although XML is Unicode, the typical encoding of it is predominantly ANSI octets, in which case Base64 works pretty well. But run some tests... xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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