RE: XMLCh & wchar_t conversion on multiple platforms

[Dean Roddey]

> In my personal DOM implementation, a DOMString 
> that only contains code points >= 255 is kept in
> ISO-8859-1.

That wouldn't work. I assume you meant <= 255, but anyway, it still probably
wouldn't work. Just because 8859-1 can *hold* any one byte encoding, the
meaning of those code points would be lost. You would have to use something
like UTF-8, i.e. something that is a transfer encoding and can represent
Unicode code points, since that's the only way you can retain the semantics.


> Contrary to Dean, I would think the larger
> the document, then more beneficial it is to
> use a compressed format and expand to UTF-16
> on demand.  

I was discussing a Unicode aware application, in which it would *always* be
demanded, because that's the only format the program works in. This is the
future, and this is what should be targeted.

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Dean Roddey
Software Geek Extraordinaire
Portal, Inc
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