[JDEV] Protocol extension?

[Jon A. Cruz]

"Thomas D. Charron" wrote:

> >>   I MAY be mistaken here, but I BELIEVE that the character set is passed along with the leading <XML> tag, defining the version and charset that the datastream will use.  The ability would be proccessed and left o the expat library...
> >Marking the character set on the XML tag is not good enough.  I may
> >login and there may be several messages waiting for me, each of them
> >encoded in a different character set. How are you going to deal with
> >that? Fine, set a global encoding on the XML line, but I do think that
> >it ought to be possible to somehow override this for an individual
> >message (or nickname in fact)
>
>   Hrm, I see your point..  What about designating that the only valid char set for use within jabber be either iso or unicode?  I really haven't delved into using mutliple char sets within ANY programs, so your most likely ahead of me as far as knowledge of the actual requirments are concerned..
>

I suggest going with UTF-8. All ASCII chars stay the same, but then all Unicode are supported.  Also, the W3C had been recommending it.

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