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Miles Sabin wrote: > Joe English wrote, > > I'm not familiar with [DPX]ER, but the BER is a tag-length-value > > scheme with variable length tags (!), variable length length fields > > (!!), and two different ways of encoding the length (!!!) > > Is this really so much harder to deal with than UTF-8 which all > conforming XML parsers have to handle? My impression: yes, the BER TLV scheme is much, much harder to deal with than UTF-8. And that's just the TLV scheme; there's plenty more complexity in the BER besides that (see previous message for a small sample). --Joe English jenglish@f...
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