[JDEV] Further encoding thoughts

[Lindsay.Marshall at newcastle.ac.uk]

On 29 Jul, Dave Smith wrote:
> One more thought...
> 
> What if we did something along these lines for encoding...
> 
> <login>
> 	<encoding type="ISO-8859-1">
> 	<user><![CDATA[...]]></user>
> 	<encoding type="UTF8">
> 	<pass>APASSWORD</pass>
> </login>

This is just too verbose. 

<login>
	<user encoding="iso-8859-1"><![CDATA[...]]></user>
	<pass>APASSWORD</pass>
</login>

is much cleaner and simpler (and avoids all the ordering problems. 

L.
-- 
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Lindsay