Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] omf encoding

[David M. <da...@lu...>]

On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 09:26:51PM -0600, John Fleck wrote:
> 
> Well, unless we're particularly industrious, we're restricted to the
> encodings supported by libxml2, which are the ones I listed above plus a
> couple that didn't seem particularly relevant. The full list*:
> 
>    1. UTF-8 is supported by default (null handlers)
>    2. UTF-16, both little and big endian
>    3. ISO-Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) covering most western languages
>    4. ASCII, useful mostly for saving
>    5. HTML, a specific handler for the conversion of UTF-8 to ASCII with
> HTML predefined entities like © for the Copyright sign.
> 
> * http://www.xmlsoft.org/encoding.html
> 
> Beyond that, we'll have to write our own encoding converters.

FWIW, the LDP will sometime later this year include docs that need
Unicode. And Lampadas is using Unicode for i18n for that reason as
well. We have to support Chinese and Japanese, and Korean, and Arabic,
and Hebrew. So afaik that means Unicode.

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