Re: Pango, UTF-8 & Latin1

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, James K. Lowden wrote:
> On 31 Jul 2002 13:30:33 -0500, Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu> wrote:
>
> > > It may be sufficient for dia to only support utf-8. You generally dont
> > > create dia files by hand, so you probably shouldnt care which encoding
> > > they are in. 
> >
> > We need to support non-utf8 encodings for two reasons:  Backwards
> > compatibility and diagrams created by other programs.  
>
> And one more: For other programs that want to read Dia files.  

They shouldn't have any trouble if Dia only supported utf-8.  As long as
they could read utf-8 and we put in the correct encoding mark.

> To break the XML standards is to create a proprietary format.  

Amen!

-Lars

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