[JDEV] encoding

[Jerrad Pierce]

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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:00:09 EDT
From: belg4mit

>What I'm really wondering here is, this is just character encodings,
>correct?  I mean, all the same characters are still there in ANY
>encoding(unless it's a severly restricted one), they are just encoded
>differently.  If it's all UTF-8 you can still do all of the korean,
>japanese, english, etc, characters just fine, they are just encoded in
>UTF-8.  It's just a language and font display issue at that point.  So
>what is the problem with using the XML-forced UTF-8 encoding?

This is more or less how I see it. I think we (should) all agree by nomw
that as long as the XML parser knows it's getting 8-bit (eg; UTF) it comes
down to your case. I see the discussion now as how to tell the client what
it needs to do to display the data, hence my directive view for encoding.

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