[JDEV] charsets (was: Protocol extension?)

[Lindsay.Marshall at newcastle.ac.uk]

On 28 Jul, Jeremie wrote:
> Reguarding the whole charset discussion... this is an issue that I haven't
> dealt with yet simply becuase I've had no experience with other character
> sets.
> 
> I do know that XML is very closely related to unicode, but I'm not too
> familiar with unicode.  Would it be suggested to simply standardize on one
> charset, be that unicode or one of the ISO* charsets?  I'm open to
> suggestions, but want to keep the client restrictions to a minimum(such as
> they aren't forced to understand multiple character sets).

No client needs to be forced to understand multiple character sets.
Its's just that the majority of the people in the world will want to
use a client that can understand the character set *they* use. I
suspect most Russians don't care about messages in Korean (though some
will). You can only support the character sets for which you
have typefaces anyway.

L.
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