From: Karl Ove Hufthammer (huftis@bigfoot.com)
Date: Tue Apr 23 2002 - 11:31:54 EDT
"Tomas Frydrych" <tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net> wrote in
news:3CC57D83.26459.97D3E6@localhost:
> Currently are not consistent. The Win32 build uses utf-8,
> Linux the encoding of current locale. The advantage of using
> the locale encoding is the size of the file, for unless you
> use only characters from basic ASCII, utf-8 needs at least two
> bytes for each. The other advantage of using the locale
> encoding is that the user can view/search, etc. the raw files.
> This is quite important to a number of users, and I think we
> should retain this.
On the other hand, XML parsers are only *required* to support
'UTF-8' and 'UTF-16' (and some do only support this).
-- Karl Ove Hufthammer
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