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Re: [office] Fwd: [odf-devel] ODF & ITS

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    Posted 03-22-2006 16:55
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    Subject: Re: [office] Fwd: [odf-devel] ODF & ITS


    Hello Lars,
    
    thank you for this enlightening answer.
    
    Best,
    Charles.
    
    Lars Oppermann wrote:
    
    > An XML file can be of any encoding. The encoding is given in the XML
    > declaration e.g. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-2022"?> for JIS),
    > and it is up to the processor to handle the encoding. As was pointed
    > out earlier, the XML spec requires conforming processors to at least
    > support utf-8 and utf-16 encoding.
    >
    > OpenDocument makes no encoding restrictions beyond those of put down
    > in the XML spec.
    >
    > If there is any issue with XML not being able to support a specific
    > encoding (not that I am aware of any), this is clearly an
    > XML/processor issue, not an OpenDocument issue.
    >
    > /lars
    >
    > Daniel Carrera wrote:
    >
    >> Charles-H.Schulz wrote:
    >>
    >>> In theory, if you use an encoding that is different from utf-8 the xml
    >>> files will get broken and so will be the entire document (at least it
    >>> won't be human readable). That said, it is not always the case.
    >>> Maybe we should try to see what could be done in regard of ODF and
    >>> 'unorthodox' encodings.
    >>> If someone has an idea here, feel free to comment.
    >>
    >>
    >> Is there any encoding that can represent characters that cannot be
    >> represented in UTF-8? If so, we may have an issue. If not, then we
    >> should just require UTF-8. Unicode is supposed to be able to
    >> represent any character from other encodings. I don't know if it
    >> actually does that, but I'm not aware of any encoding that can't be
    >> mapped to Unicode.
    >>
    >> Cheers,
    >> Daniel.
    >
    >
    >
    
    
    -- 
    Charles-H.Schulz,
    Associ� / Associate,
    Ars Aperta.
    
    
    


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