Hello Fredrik, Wednesday, May 10, 2006, 9:40:07 AM, you wrote:
so what's your use case? I think it's obvious: any place where there is XML data represented as unicode and not as plain ASCII.
(I hope you're aware that the XML file format is defined in terms of en- coded data, not as sequences of Unicode code points, and that XML encoding involves more than just character sets; there's no such thing as an "XML document in a Unicode string") Yes, I am aware of the XML spec, thank you.
stefan's argument is basically "we should add it because we can", which is a rather lousy way to design software. I don't think that was his argument and didn't find your comment very elegant either...
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