Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Merge Review: libxml2 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=226079 ------- Additional Comments From veillard@xxxxxxxxxx 2008-06-02 13:45 EST ------- Side note, could you point Toshio Kuratomi to XML specification appendix F. http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-guessing-with-ext-info He seems unaware that the software can expect XML files to be in a specific encoding - contextual metadata which can't be preserved when saved on a POSIX filesystem - and that this external information do override both the autodetection and the encoding declaration. So basically by converting a XML file blindly you can break it in context even if it looks legit say from an out of context xmllint checking. i.e. his suggestion here https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2008-May/msg00071.html is just broken, sorry. (me being 'chilling' is probably right in perspective but that's not a technical issue !) And just in case I may sound stupid, please remember that UTF-16 is the most common encoding for XML internal processing, on Windows, on the Web (DOM imposes UTF-16) and in Java, which represent a huge subset of the XML computing world. Daniel P.S.: It's not that i agree with appendix F-2 (I tried to get rid of it, failed) or with the use of UTF-16 (or derivative) over UTF-8, but that's just the way things are defined now. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review