Subject: Re: POW -- which locales Just Work?
From: Karl Ove Hufthammer (huftis@bigfoot.com)
Date: Thu Mar 01 2001 - 10:31:55 CST
----- Original Message -----
From: "ha shao" <hashao@chinese.com>
To: <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: POW -- which locales Just Work?
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 04:09:52PM +0400, hvv@hippo.ru wrote:
> > From this sentence one may think that saving in unicode is a better
approach
> > than saving in native charset. It's wrong - since the charset is specified
in
> > the xml header, storing documents in any charset will work fine (as long as
> > importing system's iconv understands that encoding).
Saving in 'UTF-8' or 'UTF-16' *is* much better than using a other charsets. Not
because of AbiWord, but because *other* programs may be reading AbiWord
documents. People implementing XML parsers (which is used by several programs,
e.g. XSLT engines) don't want to implement hundreds of character encodings, as
this will 1) be much work, 2) increase the size/bloat, and 3) be unnecessary.
-- Med venlig helsing Karl Ove Hufthammer
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