Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: How does arch/tla handle encodings?

[Aaron Bentley]

Marcus Sundman wrote:
> On Saturday 28 August 2004 09:14, Aaron Bentley wrote:
>
> > Marcus Sundman wrote:
> >
> > > Practically speaking it's wrong since it
> > > severely limits what encodings can be used, since the file would have
> > > to contain a byte sequence equivalent to a string like '<?xml
> > > version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>' encoded in ANSI X3.4-1986.
> >
> > Not so:
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-guessing
>
>
> You are correct. The xml spec does indeed recognize a special case. Besides 
> ANSI X3.4-1986 and the unicode encodings it apparently also supports 
> EBCDIC. I stand corrected.
>
> Good that we got that cleared up. We wouldn't want to make any EBCDIC fans 
> upset, now would we? ;-)

You also implied that the XML encoding mechanism didn't support unicode 
encodings other than utf-8.

Aaron