9 Nov
2007
9 Nov
'07
1:10 p.m.
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
Yes, an XML parser should be able to use UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32, etc codecs to do the encoding. There's no need to create a magical mystery codec to pick out which though. So the code is good, if it is inside an XML parser, and it's bad if it is inside a codec?
Exactly so. This functionality just *isn't* a codec - there is no encoding. Instead, it is an algorithm for *detecting* an encoding.
And what do you do once you've detected the encoding? You decode the input, so why not combine both into an XML decoder? Servus, Walter