Hoylen Sue wrote: >It is not necessary for openEHR to specify the encoding >format (UTF-8, UTF-16, etc). > >Since openEHR does not dictate an implementation or >transport format, it does not need to -- and should not -- >specify the character encoding format. > >Just saying text will be using the Unicode character set >(and maybe indicating which particular version of Unicode is >being used, version 4.0 is currently the latest) is >sufficient. > > I wonder if this is true for people using openEHR-based components via an API rather than communicating via data messages. I assume that the unicode implemementation used in the String type in most of today's languages make it easy to determine what width unicode characters you have in the data?
I agree that being able to commit to as little as possible and still get the effect of standardisation is completely desirable. - thomas beale - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
