Re: Requesting a revision of RFC3023

On 21 Sep 2003 22:06:30 -0500
"Aaron Swartz" <[email protected]> wrote:

> > I think that persuading users is more difficult than
> > persuading programmers.  I have encouraged use of Unicode
> > for XML in Japan, but nothing has happened.
> 
> The users shouldn't have to know what a character encoding is! Their 
> software should just use UTF-8 automatically.

Will users discard existing software, which supports legacy encogins, and 
existing data, which are in legacy encodings?  I am not saying Unicode 
everywhere is bad.  To the contrary, I think Unicode everywhere is better.  
But it is extremely unlikely.

Cheers,

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MURATA Makoto <[email protected]>