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Re: [JDEV] charsets (was: Protocol extension?)



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).

Jer

On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 Lindsay.Marshall@newcastle.ac.uk wrote:

> 
> >   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..
> 
> Well, in tcl it is completely trivial to work with multiple character
> set encodings as all the support is built in already - if you know th
> e encoding you translate it to unicode straight away and back - but I
> dont know about any other systems. 
> 
> L.
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