"Carl W. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> scsu makes sense for large blocks of data. Send the frame work in
> utf-8 but use HTTP to request the bulk data in scsu. If it is a
> small amount of data you don't want to pay the overhead of the
> compression.
SCSU was intentionally designed to be extremely low in overhead. This
is one of the main differences between SCSU and most other compression
schemes.
> You don't need a BOM with UTF-8.
Not for byte-ordering purposes, but it is often handy as a signature.
Auto-detection of UTF-8 is not difficult, but not foolproof either --
there are legitimate sequences of Latin-1 characters that look like
UTF-8. Using the signature EF BB BF at the beginning of a file is a
more reliable indication that the file is UTF-8.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
