Re: WOFF metadata - should we require (rather than recommend) the use of UTF-8?
Liam R E Quin <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.fonts |
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| Organization | W3C - World Wide Web Consortium |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 15:15 +0900, suzuki toshiya wrote: [...] > "writing XML document for the system without XML parser, or human" > is slightly confusing task, but, I think WOFF is primarily designed > for web technology, not for pure XML, so the extra restriction > from non-XML issue would be acceptable. It is perfectly acceptable for some specific XML-based format to say they will only use UTF-8. It would not be acceptable to say, "in our application we accept any XML vocabulary, but only in UTF-8" because that would damage interoperability. But saying "our particulay format must always be in utf-8" is not hurting interoperability, and is OK. Hope this helps. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/