• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• To: "Richard Anderson" <rja@a...>, <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 11:40:43 -0800

At 03:46 PM 11/13/99 -0000, Richard Anderson wrote:
>But UTF-8 can support "foreign" characters so I dont see the argument for
>having UTF-16 too.  Also, generally speaking UTF-8 encoding results in
>smaller output for most cases.

The UTF-*'s are logically equivalent to most users, in that they share
the property that almost no real-world data objects are encoded in either.
One of the nice things about XML is that it allows you to store & transmit
your objects in any well-known encoding as long as you declare it.  I'm
delighted to observe that most of the real-world XML processors out there
effortlessly deal with various ISO-Latins and JIS and so on. -T.

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