,----[ JC Helary wrote on 27 Jan 2006 ]
>>> Well, partly I was asking what the column was meant to be about.
>>> UTF-8 is not a character set, it's an encoding.
>>
>> Ah, thanks for the clarification.  I will correct the column to
>> "encodings".  What is a character set then, and does it play any
>> role in XML parsing?
>
> Reference:
>
>> The GEO Working Group has published the article:
>>
>>      Introducing Character Sets and Encodings
>>      http://www.w3.org/International/getting-started/characters
>>      By Richard Ishida
>>
>>
>>
>> This is the first in a series of articles aimed at those who are
>> new to internationalization. These pages will introduce people to
>> key internationalization topics and tasks, and direct them towards
>> articles or resources on the W3C Internationalization subsite that
>> will take them to the next level of understanding.
>>
>> This document introduces topics in the general area of character
>> sets, encodings, escapes, etc.
>
> JC Helary

Thanks JC,

I added a reference to the article you mentioned in the XML Parser
Comparison doc.

-- 
Peter K. Lee
C programmer by day, fledgling lisper by night

"Only Lisp gods are omnipotent" - Anonymous
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