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Subject: Note on size-unit
I realize that we have given up on setting a complete system for that aspect of XLIFF, but I just want to add one additional issue we haven't talked about yet: When specifying a maxwidth in bytes or a maxbytes values, tools will not be really able to use efficiently such metadata if they don't know the encoding that will be used in the final output. For example, if a tool calculate a text size in Shift-JIS during translation, but the target platform is Unix and the encoding ultimately used for the translated text is EUC-JP, the validation done by the tool will be irrelevant as those two encoding may give different byte length for the same text. The same goes for Latin 1 text and UTF-8 vs windows-1252, etc. We miay need an extra attribute to specify the "target encoding", or something like that. Just something to keep in mind in your thoughts for 2.0...
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