srintuar said: >>The W3C claims all apps should use UTF-16 internally >> > Ghastly recommendation. I'd sooner see utf-16 deprecated as a > unicode encoding than advise it be used anywhere where its not strictly > mandatory for *backwards* compatibility. > > Do you have a link to this malfeasance? Perhaps Im using the > wrong search keys...
This is probably states the definitive position for text handling: http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-charmod-19991129/#Encodings But even though the encoding is not clearly stated as UTF-16, the Document Object Model (DOM) which is basically the document tree inside a web browser and key to all HTML and XML processing including JavaScript and XSLT processing *requires* the encoding be UTF-16: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-Core-20040407/core.html#ID-C74D1578 Mike -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
