* Michael Everson | | I think it's clear that Unicode should give some advice as to how to | announce encoding options in a useful way to the end user. For the | two encodings we are discussing, may I suggest the following | standard menu items: | | Unicode (Raw, UTF-16) | Unicode (Web, UTF-8)
I don't think calling it "raw" is very good. It just keeps alive the myth that UTF-16 *is* Unicode. None of the UTFs are "raw", and the closest must surely be UTF-32. The below would probably be easier: Unicode (UTF-16) Unicode (UTF-8, default) If you know what you're doing you can choose what you want. If not, you should just choose UTF-8. -- Lars Marius Garshol, Ontopian <URL: http://www.ontopia.net > ISO SC34/WG3, OASIS GeoLang TC <URL: http://www.garshol.priv.no >
