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W3C and UTF-16

srintuar said:
>>The W3C claims all apps should use UTF-16 internally
>>
> Ghastly recommendation. I'd sooner see utf-16 deprecated as a
> unicode encoding than advise it be used anywhere where its not strictly
> mandatory for *backwards* compatibility.
>
> Do you have a link to this malfeasance? Perhaps Im using the
> wrong search keys...

This is probably states the definitive position for text handling:

http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-charmod-19991129/#Encodings

But even though the encoding is not clearly stated as UTF-16, the Document
Object Model (DOM) which is basically the document tree inside a web
browser and key to all HTML and XML processing including JavaScript and
XSLT processing *requires* the encoding be UTF-16:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-Core-20040407/core.html#ID-C74D1578

Mike

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