Dear colleagues,
I work in a group involved in web development.
We are trying to understand the benefits of Unicode
encoding forms for HTML and XML. The benefits of
Unicode character set is obvious to our developers,
but when it comes down to encoding forms, they do not
see any advantage in using utf-8, utf-16 or utf-32...
Here are some of the reasons I heard from them and I
must say that I ran out of arguments quickly. I would
appreciate if I can get different point of views from
Unicode members so that I can be more convincing...
1- W3C recognized the benefits of Unicode character
set by enforcing it HTML and XML. BUT they also did
not enforce the Unicode encoding forms. Any character
encoding form can be used.
2- Since there is more than one Unicode encoding form,
its declaration/identification (charset, BOM, ...) is
still compulsory. Then why not using any other
character encoding form?
3- Authoring and development tools have a better
support of "local" character encoding forms (non
Unicode ones). That is why the vast majority of web
pages do not use Utf-8, 16 or 32.
Thanks for your comments.
Paul.
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