Re: Requesting a revision of RFC3023

Tim Bray <[email protected]> Fri, 19 Sep 2003 11:21:47 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.org.w3c.tag,gmane.ietf.xml-mime
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Martin Duerst wrote:

> This will of course take some time. As one example, N3 just says
> that it's in UTF-8. For other new formats, that may make sense,
> too.

In principle, I agree.  In practice, there's a problem, for example I 
actually don't know how, in my favorite editor on Mac OS X, to type in 
the u-umlaut in Martin's last name, and how to force saving a file in 
UTF-8.  This isn't a problem for me because I'm usually writing XML and 
so I just write D&uuml;rst.  So I actually have trouble making N3 
assertions about Martin.

If we could make the whole world always use UTF-8 for everything life 
would be so much simpler :)
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Cheers, Tim Bray
         (ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)