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James Clark wrote: > David Megginson wrote: > > 4. Hold my nose and use UTF-8 rather than UTF-16, for compatibility > > with most existing C++ code. > I would say there was at least as much C++ code using UTF-16 as using UTF-8. [...] > There are a couple of possible solutions: > > 1. A lo-tech solution. Provide a SAXChar typedef [...] > > 2. A hi-tech solution. [use templates] 3. Use a similar solution to the Java spec: provide both a ByteStream and a CharacterStream in InputSource, which has two benefits. One, it is consistent with the Java interface, which can't be a *bad* thing. Two, it frees us to define the CharacterStream explicitly as a conduit for UTF-16 encoded data, whilst allowing parsers/applications the freedom to use the ByteStream for data that is encoded in whatever format desired. The encoding can either be auto-detected, or can be explicitly identified using the InputSource setEncoding()/getEncoding() member function. This means going back to the two streams and the getEncoding()/setEncoding() methods of the original Java spec. This really seems like a Good Thing; I liked the look of it in the Java interface; why not use it here also? > If you feel that one needs to be mandated, I would pick UTF-16. Agreed. Michael ____________________________________________ http://www.mds.rmit.edu.au/~msf/ Multimedia Databases Group, RMIT, Australia. 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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