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Eldar Musayev scripsit: > People outside may want just to slip few lines in a text without bothering > themselves with > encoding header. Would you like to add charset information to every XML > document you create? You *must* do so, unless the document is in UTF-8 or UTF-16. US-ASCII, which is a subset of UTF-8, will also work, but ISO 8859-1, or KOI-8R, or EUC-JP, is illegal without an encoding declaration or the equivalent charset declaration on a MIME header. > Because what you are proposing stripes the whole world except few > purely-English language countries > of the convenience of a default charset. The only default charsets are UTF-8 and UTF-16. > In short, non-valid characters are errors, but they should not be fatal. We are not talking about invalid characters (such as U+0001) which are already fatal errors. We are talking about invalid encodings. An FF byte in a UTF-8 document means the document is nonsense; there is no telling what it means. -- John Cowan cowan@c... Yes, I know the message date is bogus. I can't help it. --me, on far too many occasions *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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