[JDEV] Encodings & Simplicity

[Thomas D. Charron]

  See my last package..  We're saved..  There are packages out there to convert between charsets.. ;-P
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Thomas Charron

On Thu, 29 Jul 1999 19:01:18   Dave Smith wrote:
>
>I've been thinking about this whole problem of encodings and would like to
>thrown one more log on the fire... :)
>
>We are assuming that in international circumstances, individuals will want to
>create Jabber packets that contain non-ASCII data. Okay, that's good and fine.
>But why force the Jabber packets that *enclose* the data to conform to the same
>standard? That is, why does a Jabber packet *have* to be encoded in anything
>besides UTF-8?! Jabber, by nature, doesn't care what **data** a packet carries,
>so long as the transport/etherex/etc can parse the actual packet. Am I making
>any sense? :)
>
>It would be *very* difficult to ensure that every client and every transport
>could understand 7 possible packet encodings. Why not just specify that all
>protocol-related information be in UTF-8 (which is what most programming
>languages use -- I don't know of a Chinese/Korean/Thai character based
>programming language) ? Furthermore, specify that individual tags within a
>packet could have an attribute telling the client what format the CDATA (for a
>particular tag) is in. This way, it's up to the client to decode funky chars and
>the server/transport side of things only worries about the encoding...
>
>These are just a few thoughts I had..probably doesn't solve everything, but I
>think it simplfies the issue...doesn't it? :)
>
>D.
>


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