Re: VMs: For this MONKEY: Help, pointers, etc. please:Unicode,TrueType fonts, kerning

["Rafal T. Prinke" <rafalp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nick,

Nick Pelling wrote:

> So, XML explicitly handles (and specifies) the character encoding used
> (such as UTF-8 or UTF-16) using (unsurprisingly) the "encoding" keyword in
> the XML declaration - all valid XML parsers must handle UTF-8 and UTF-16,
> though most tend also to handle ISO-8859-1 and Windows-centric encodings
> (like "windows-1252"). It all ends up as Unicode, regardless. :-)

Yes, you are obviously right. But the default encoding
is UTF-8 (if you do not specify it in the declaration).
This is what I meant - support for UTF-8 plain text
would be perhaps most universal as practically all
modern editors (such as Word) can write to an UTF-8 text file.
The last time I checked WordPerfect had some problems
(I remember it treated long-s incorrectly) - but that was some 
two versions ago, so it may have improved.

Full support for XML would be too much, I think, unless
the transriptions are converted to XML as once discussed
(but decided against).

Best regards,

Rafal
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