Re-Hi, Here is a very good tool to play with character encoding... http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelPad.html
Pascal > -----Message d'origine----- > De : Pascal Sancho > Envoyé : mardi 8 juillet 2008 15:47 > > 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
