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

[Marcus Sundman]

On Saturday 28 August 2004 22:30, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> 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.

Yes, and that is obviously not true. I apologize for my sloppiness.


- Marcus Sundman