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Re: 8bit ascii encoding
- From: Mike Brown <mike at skew dot org>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 13:50:37 -0600 (MDT)
- Subject: Re: [xsl] 8bit ascii encoding
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Andrew Welch wrote:
> One theoretical question that would help: If I choose utf-8 as my
> output encoding, there will be no BOM and characters in the original
> ascii range will be output exactly as if I had chosen ascii...? (0-127)
Yes.
> So in theory, any program that takes the output, copies it byte-for-byte
> and adds some its own bytes in ascii, would maintain the original utf-8
> encoding (therefore any program told to read it in utf-8 would be
> successful). Is this sound?
It would work, yes, as long as you can be certain that it's always
done exactly as you say.
Is it wise? I'd be imagining the day a year from now when someone else
is having to wrench something into your application, and they'll not have
done their homework and will just think a character is a character, "let's
throw some random strings in there and hey why is my XML broken!?! XML is
dumb!"
- Mike
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