[odf-discuss] ODF and UTF-8/16/32-HEX/DEC/DECHTML

[Thomas Zander]

On Wednesday 21 February 2007 18:27, Damon Anderson wrote:
> Where I take issue is with using < and >. HTML supports UTF-8  
> Decimal fully, so should XML. < and > should be XML extensions, not  
> defaults.

Hehe, lots of confusion here.

utf-8 is a way of writing out to disk unicode characters.  Just like utf-16 
and other encodings.  I'm pretty sure that has nothing to do with your 
question.
I'm assuming your utf-8 usage here actually means unicode.

In XML (and HTML) the following rules are made:
<foo>bar</foo>

requesting the child-text of node 'foo' leads to the string "bar".
The other way around:
String: "Some words"  becomes:
 <foo>Some words</foo>
String: "Fokke & sukke" becomes:
  <foo>Fokke &amp; sukke</foo>
String: "Bold is <b> in html" becomes:
  <foo>Bold is &lt;b&gt; in html</foo>

Hope that clears some things up.

Further you said; 
>  Given that 90% of the world's  
> languages are non-ASCII this standard seems to be UTF and UTF-8 probably  
> isn't enough (given that chinese and Japanese are already pushing into  
> requirements of UTF-32) it seems like UTF-16HEX should be the defacto  
> standard.

This if false; please read up on utf-8. Its a standard that can encode all of 
unicode 5 due to the fact that its a variable length standard.
For example;  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utf8

I know; I store japanese, korean, hebrew and various other languages in my 
KWord documents and they are all UTF-8.

Its a difficult domain, encodings and unicode and all that stuff.  But I can 
assure you that ODF is fully capable for all spoken languages and various 
dead languags as well.
I can't advice anything other then that you dive into the documentation to 
learn how to get the best out of them.

Cheers!

-- 
Thomas Zander
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