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Rick Jelliffe scripsit: > 1) There is no need to tie the naming proposal to a specific encoding > (UTF-8), and good reason (i.e. real-life usefulness) to broaded it. I think that UTF-8 is sufficient, though I wouldn't object to a parallel proposal for UTF-16+names. There are people for whom UTF-16 makes much more sense than UTF-8, and there is no reason why they shouldn't have access to names as well. > 2) There is no need to tie the naming proposal to specific mime types > (*/xml*), and good reason (i.e. other text formats need convenient > characters just as much as XML) to broaden it. It isn't in any way tied to XML, though it does borrow a bit of XML syntax (and why not?). > 3) There is no need to insist on particular delimiters, and if > the need is recognized as being larger than for XML, good reason > not to. Why so? Since the delimiters are filtered out, and there is a very simple way to write an & character when you need to, what does it matter what the upper-level syntax is? This is something about XText I never understood. > 4) It is a mistake to introduce a superencoded reference system > in which simple transcoding a file from UTF-8 to something else would > render the file non-standard. When I open a UTF-8+Names file, edit > it (as Unicode or maybe ASCII) in my editor, then save it as > UTF-16, I have no way of labelling what encoding the file it in. Okay, so you need UTF-16+names for that. > The infrastructure is not set up to handle this kind of hack. Frankly, the infrastructure isn't set up to handle character encodings at all. -- John Cowan jcowan@r... http://www.reutershealth.com "Mr. Lane, if you ever wish anything that I can do, all you will have to do will be to send me a telegram asking and it will be done." "Mr. Hearst, if you ever get a telegram from me asking you to do anything, you can put the telegram down as a forgery."
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