Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Choosing a characterset for DocBook

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Jens Stavnstrup wrote:

> > If your documents will contain a lot of character outside of ISO Latin 1
> > or ASCII using UTF-8 is best choice, assuming that all editors used can
> > deal with UTF-8.
> >
> 
> Not really, the problem is basically, that Word, which might be used to
> to edit the XML sources, kindly add invinsible characters to my document.
> And this might cause problems for my colleagues.

Even if you save it as plain text? If you will use ISO-8859-1 there
shouldn't be added any additional characters. Problem may be with UTF-8
usage. MS applications adds byte-order mark to the beginning of UTF-8
files. This is not supported some older XML parsers, as it was not
required by XML spec. I think that Second edition of XML 1.0 solved this
issue.

				Jirka 

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