XP Mail Archive: XP> Relaxing XHTML-Print's restriction to U

XP> Relaxing XHTML-Print's restriction to UTF-8 to include UTF-16

From: BIGELOW,JIM (HP-Boise,ex1) (jim.bigelow@hp.com)
Date: Tue Sep 02 2003 - 20:42:14 EDT

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    > From: Henri Sivonen [mailto:hsivonen@iki.fi]
    ...
    > It is said that if a "charset" parameter is present for the
    > application/xhtml+xml MIME type, the only valid value is "utf-8". It
    > would make sense to allow "utf-16" as well. All XML processors are
    > required to support UTF-16 in addition to UTF-8, so allowing
    > UTF-16 for XHTML-Print doesn't cause any additional burden
    > to implementations. Also, the payload of
    > Application/Vnd.pwg-multiplexed chunks is defined
    > as octets, so UTF-16 strings can be delivered as
    > Application/Vnd.pwg-multiplexed chunks without any further encoding.
    >

    I tend to agree with Henri when he says that support UTF-16 would not be
    much more expensive than UTF-8. Does anyone on this list or the PWG's
    XHTML-Print list disagree?

    Jim

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