On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, James K. Lowden wrote: > On 31 Jul 2002 13:30:33 -0500, Lars Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > It may be sufficient for dia to only support utf-8. You generally dont >> > create dia files by hand, so you probably shouldnt care which encoding >> > they are in. >> >> We need to support non-utf8 encodings for two reasons: Backwards >> compatibility and diagrams created by other programs. > > And one more: For other programs that want to read Dia files.
They shouldn't have any trouble if Dia only supported utf-8. As long as they could read utf-8 and we put in the correct encoding mark. > To break the XML standards is to create a proprietary format. Amen! -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| H�rdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
