Marco Cimarosti wrote:BTW, would it be possible to encode XML in SCSU?
Yes. Any reasonable SCSU encoder will stay in the ASCII-compatible single-byte mode until it sees a character from beyond Latin-1. Thus the encoding declaration will be ASCII-readable.
I think there are various different issues here:
- Would it be possible to *en*code an XML document in SCSU? The answer is clearly yes.
- Would it be *possible* to have such documents *de*coded by an XML processor according to the rules in Appendix F of the XML Recommendation (i.e. no external encoding information, such as in a standalone file). The answer to this question is what Markus said above.
- Is it *probable* that an XML processor decodes XML in SCSU? No, XML processors are only required to support UTF-8 and UTF-16. Many of them support other encodings, such as iso-8859-1,..., but support for SCSU is thin as far as I'm aware.
Regards, Martin.
