On 2013-08-29 11:23, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
IIRC, everything in XML is
ASCII anyway, with stuff like HTML codes to indicate Unicode characters. And if
that's the case, avoiding unnecessary decoding is trivial when operating on
strings.
What! I hardly believe that. That might be the case for HTML but I don't
think it is for XML. There are many file formats that are based on XML.
I don't think all those use HTML codes.
This is what W3 Schools says:
"XML documents can contain non ASCII characters, like Norwegian æ ø å ,
or French ê è é.
To avoid errors, specify the XML encoding, or save XML files as Unicode.".
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/Jacob Carlborg
