Hi Rakesh,
In a well-formed xml, you may use any encoding you want.
If your text nodes contains characters that are not part of the encoding
pattern, then you have to use character entities.
To choose the character encoding, you should consider:
- environment (what encoding is supported by your system/your applications)
- human readable (not easy when there is too many character encoding)
- file size:
a US text in UTF-8 or US-ASCII is about 1 byte-per-char
an asian text can be:
- about 3 or 4 byte-per-char in UTF-8
- about 2 byte-per-char in UTF-16
- about 8 byte-per-char in US-ASCII (using characters entities, like
豈
In your case, I think the best choice should be UTF-16.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encoding.
Note that XML rec [1] says that All XML processors must accept the UTF-8 and
UTF-16 encodings.
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#charsets
HTH,
Pascal
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Rakesh Kumar S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Envoyé : mardi 8 juillet 2008 14:03
>
> Hi,
>
> Which is the encoding format that will support both asian language and
> western fonts?
>
> Thanks,
> Rakesh Kumar S
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