On Thursday, 29 August 2013 at 18:58:57 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 01:38:23PM -0400, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
[...]
Well, as I said, I couldn't remember exactly what the XML
standard said about encodings, but if it can contain non-ASCII
characters, then my first inclination is to say that it has to
be UTF-8, UTF-16, or UTF-32 based on the fact that that's what
we support in the language and in Phobos
Take a look here:
http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_encoding.asp
XML files can have *any* valid encoding, including nastiness
like
windows-1252 and relics like iso-8859-1. Unfortunately, I don't
think we
have a way around this, since existing XML files out there
probably
already have all of these encodings are more, and std.xml is
gonna hafta
support 'em all. Otherwise we're gonna get irate users
complaining "why
can't std.xml parse my oddly-encoded-but-standards-compliant
XML file?!"
As this is not the first time I see it used as a reliable source,
no, w3school is full of shit. Don't use that website when looking
for precise high quality information.
