• From: Joe Lapp <jlapp@w...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 22:35:34 -0500

At 11:23 PM 11/27/1999 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
>[...]
>The hint you asked for: not doing i18n is asking for trouble
>before, during, and after the fact.  Supporting legacy *encodings*
>may be unnecessary.  Failing to support the Unicode character set
>is plain retrograde.

I like that.  Say, UTF-8 and UTF-16, both autodetected in the first few bytes, and no chicken-and-egg encoding declarations.
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