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Subject: Re: [office] Fwd: [odf-devel] ODF & ITS
An XML file can be of any encoding. The encoding is given in the XML declaration e.g. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-2022"?> for JIS), and it is up to the processor to handle the encoding. As was pointed out earlier, the XML spec requires conforming processors to at least support utf-8 and utf-16 encoding. OpenDocument makes no encoding restrictions beyond those of put down in the XML spec. If there is any issue with XML not being able to support a specific encoding (not that I am aware of any), this is clearly an XML/processor issue, not an OpenDocument issue. /lars Daniel Carrera wrote: > Charles-H.Schulz wrote: >> In theory, if you use an encoding that is different from utf-8 the xml >> files will get broken and so will be the entire document (at least it >> won't be human readable). That said, it is not always the case. >> Maybe we should try to see what could be done in regard of ODF and >> 'unorthodox' encodings. >> If someone has an idea here, feel free to comment. > > Is there any encoding that can represent characters that cannot be > represented in UTF-8? If so, we may have an issue. If not, then we > should just require UTF-8. Unicode is supposed to be able to represent > any character from other encodings. I don't know if it actually does > that, but I'm not aware of any encoding that can't be mapped to Unicode. > > Cheers, > Daniel. -- Lars Oppermann <lars.oppermann@sun.com> Sun Microsystems Software Engineer - StarOffice Sachsenfeld 4 Phone: +49 40 23646 959 D-20097 Hamburg Fax: +49 40 23646 550 http://www.sun.com/staroffice
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