Re: What are you expecting XML to be in?

An XML compliant parser must support Unicode, but a particular Unicode file can be represented in ISO-8859-1.

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Re: Re: What are you expecting XML to be in? by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Jun 03, 2001 at 22:44 UTC
That's a proper subset of UTF-8, so not really necessary. Can a particular XML file be represented in, say, 8859-6 or JIS-X, and still be standard? I don't like this because it means that a file can't be read unless the parser knows that character set.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: What are you expecting XML to be in? by merlyn (Sage) on Jun 04, 2001 at 02:19 UTC
7-bit ISO-8859-1 (also called "ASCII" {grin}) is a proper subset of UTF-8, but not 8-bit ISO-8859-1. So yes, you'd need to declare the file as ISO-8859-1 if you wanted to have any "second half" characters, but otherwise you can let it default to UTF-8. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: What are you expecting XML to be in? by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Jun 04, 2001 at 07:23 UTC
Oh yea, that's right. 8859-1 is a subset of Unicode character encoding, but not UTF-8. I mixed them up. So one can find existing xml files with various encodings? Does that mean a parser needs a conformance statement as to what encodings it can understand?	[reply]