Well said.
Misha
On 30/08/2001 17:51:24 "Addison Phillips wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> Perhaps I can rephrase Misha's answer ;-):
>
> 1. EUC-JP is an encoding ("charset") that was originally created to encoding
> Japanese character sets such as JIS X 208 and JIS X 212.
> 2. As such, EUC-JP can be used to encode the subset of Unicode that contains
> all of the characters in JIS X 208 and JIS X 212, etc.
> 3. An XML parser uses the Unicode character set internally to represent and
> process character data. As such, the most natural encoding to use for an XML
> file would be a Unicode encoding such as UTF-8 or UTF-16.
> 4. However, you can use any other encoding, provided you tag the file
> appropriately (so that the parser knows what the encoding is and can
> translate it to its internal representation).
> 5 You are not required to use EUC-JP for your Japanese XML files: you can
> use the Unicode encodings directly. In some cases, though, your file
> editting software may make it easier to work with EUC-JP (or
> Shift-JIS/Microsoft Code Page 932).
>
> As for an XML parser that handles all of these, I know from extensive
> testing that ours does<g>. And it is worth mentioning, becuase, in fact,
> EUC-JP (and many other encodings) are perfectly interoperable----for the
> subset of characters that they represent. Most XML interchanges (for
> example, marketplaces such as CommerceOne or Ariba) tend to prefer that
> "legacy encoded" files be converted to UTF-8 for interoperability, but there
> is no requirement that one do so and many backend XML systems, *especially*
> in Japan, use the non-Unicode encodings.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Addison
>
> Addison P. Phillips
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> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 8:37 AM
> To: Ayers, Mike
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> Subject: RE: japanese xml
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>
> I have no idea of what you're talking about.
>
> Misha
>
>
> On 30/08/2001 16:11:14 "Ayers, Mike" wrote:
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 06:06 AM
> >
> > > IMO, I correctly replied to Viranga's question and I've
> > > no idea what you're talking about below.
> >
> > Let me try to put it another way. What you said may have been
> > technically correct, but it was probably not worth mentioning because it
> > represents a noninteroperable encoding. Perhaps I am mistaken though - do
> > you know of an XML parser that can parse the encoding that you suggested?
> >
> >
> > /|/|ike
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