* Michael Everson
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| I think it's clear that Unicode should give some advice as to how to
| announce encoding options in a useful way to the end user. For the
| two encodings we are discussing, may I suggest the following
| standard menu items:
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| Unicode (Raw, UTF-16)
| Unicode (Web, UTF-8)
I don't think calling it "raw" is very good. It just keeps alive the
myth that UTF-16 *is* Unicode. None of the UTFs are "raw", and the
closest must surely be UTF-32.
The below would probably be easier:
Unicode (UTF-16)
Unicode (UTF-8, default)
If you know what you're doing you can choose what you want. If not,
you should just choose UTF-8.
-- Lars Marius Garshol, Ontopian <URL: http://www.ontopia.net > ISO SC34/WG3, OASIS GeoLang TC <URL: http://www.garshol.priv.no >
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