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Subject: Re: [office] Fwd: [odf-devel] ODF & ITS
Hello Daniel, 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. Well, I think you're right to the point, Daniel. In theory every possible character can be represented in UTF-8. Politely put, I would just say that this is true, although it is not always done properly. In short, UTF -8 is supposed to do that, but sometimes it actually fails to provide a correct rendering of characters... UTF-8 us a valuable effort for rendering every possible characters out there, but it is really a double-edged sword in this context. Best, -- Charles-H.Schulz, Associé / Associate, Ars Aperta.
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