Re: Messaging Service spec v0-2 - charsets

[Tim McGrath <tmcgrath@tedis.com.au>]

as we have concluded our report and suggested the spec now go to public
review, this thread should now be addressed directly to the TRP team.

i shall forward it to their list.

duane wrote:

> Jon:
>
> Yes - you are right.  UTF-8 has been mandated by the Technical
> Architecture group as minimal.
>
> ISO 8859-1 does not represent Kanji characters correctly as far as I
> know.
>
> Duane Nickull
>
> Jon Bosak wrote:
> >
> > [tmcgrath@tedis.com.au:]
> >
> > | * lines 211-215 and then 261-268  (charsets)
> > |
> > | Both claim to be "The charset attribute is used to identify the
> > | character set used to create the message" and yet propose
> > | different values.  i think it means the outer and inner encoding
> > | methods but if so it should not use the same first sentence.
> >
> > The encoding method could use the iso-8859-1 default value of lines
> > 213-215 or UTF-8 as recommended in 264-266.  It seems to me that
> > we should mandate the latter.  Surely UTF-8 is the minimum level
> > of internationalization for anything calling itself an XML tool.
> >
> > Jon

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