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<BR>Hi! I originally supported having the registry as an ansi or ascii text file, but if we go to UTF-8 we might as well go to xml so as to indicate the character set I guess. It is a problem to download utf-8 files as anything but ASCII on some computers here too--that makes for ? marks & such replacing characters not available in ASCII. (But I'm hoping the plain text files will continue to be available somewhere . . . as ansi, as utf-8; I got into this discussion long ago.) <BR> <BR>--C. E. Whitehead<BR><A href="mailto:cewcathar@hotmail.com">cewcathar@hotmail.com</A><BR><BR>Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:52:57 +0200<BR>From: "Frank Ellermann" <A href="mailto:nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de">nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de</A><BR><BR> <BR>> Doug Ewell wrote:<BR><BR>[registry file format] <BR>> > Note that these are two different arguments; UTF-8 need not <BR>> > imply XML.<BR> <BR>> XML offers a way to indicate<BR>> this charset *within* a document (unlike text/plain <BR>> BOM kludges).<BR><BR>> In comparison with XML "record-jar" is an obscure format, it has<BR>> no MIME type, it will be handled as "some kind of text/plain" in<BR>> practice. And text/plain means ASCII or any local charset, as it<BR>> happens this is not UTF-8 on my platform (was OS/2, now <BR>> Windows).<BR><BR></body>
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