Re: Character encoding (was Re: RSS 1.1)

Jon Hanna wrote:

> If you use US-ASCII but label it as UTF-8 it will work, since the 
> UTF-8 encoding for all characters catered for by US-ASCII is 
> identical to the US-ASCII encoding.

Right. I think that this is clear in the RSS 1.1 specification, but
we're going to try to make it clearer anyway.

> I don't recommend UTF32 for bytes-on-the-wire and saying one SHOULD 
> output in UTF-8 or UTF-16 (and perhaps informally recommending 
> UTF-8), MUST accept UTF-8 and UTF-16 and MAY use other encodings as 
> per the XML rules for doing so would be consistent with C018.

Yes, this is based on a misreading of C018, as Bjoern Hoehrmann has
already pointed out, and will be fixed in the next draft. We'll be
requiring UTF-8 as the encoding, the same as RSS 1.0, and trying to make
the section on US-ASCII clearer.

Cheers,

-- 
Sean B. Palmer, http://inamidst.com/sbp/


 
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