Unicode encoding question

[Jarek Zgoda]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> pisze:

>> It doesn't matter, as long as all your chat server clients agree.  UTF-8
>> or UTF-16 would be the obvious choices; the preference would depend on
>> the language(s) you'd typically expect to be used over the server.
> 
> Exactly; although IETF suggests to use UTF-8 for new protocols if in 
> doubt (as the second-best choice, they suggest to allow multiple 
> encodings, with a clear encoding declaration on the wire).
> 
> Of course, if the protocol is an *existing* one, like IRC, you'll have 
> to stick with whatever the protocol specifies. For the specific case of 
> IRC, you will find that the situation is quite muddy.

But on the other hand you have Jabber and here situation is very clear,
all messaging must be done in UTF-8.

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Jarek Zgoda
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