On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Friedhelm Betz wrote: > On Monday 23 August 2004 15:54, Derick Rethans wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Friedhelm Betz wrote: > > > On Monday 23 August 2004 11:03, Derick Rethans wrote: > > > [...] > > > > > > > I think we should start making the manual always output UTF8. Can > > > > people think of reasons why NOT to do this? > > > > > > Not really, but only the issue to ensure that the source .xml files are > > > always saved/edited as utf-8. This should not be too hard to reach, as > > > nowadays translators have to mange the proper encoding of their files. > > > > That is not needed as the XML parser detects the charset from the <?xml > > declaration and converts it internally into utf8 anyway. > > Ah, yes, you are right of course. > It might increase performance, if the source xml files are already in utf-8?
Marginally, I wouldn't do the work to convert files to UTF-8 manually if there isn't a very good reason to do it. Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org
