Re: A simpler proposal: PaceAtomIDAsString

[Tim Bray <Tim.Bray@xxxxxxx>]

On Aug 3, 2004, at 5:11 PM, Bill de hÓra wrote:

> According to the pace, it's not plain text for the rest of us, it's 
> Unicode for the rest of us. If the comparison rules are to be 
> character based over Unicode, that would suggest the Unicode encoding 
> must also be specified so we know how many bytes are being used per 
> character and so on. A 'string of Unicode characters' isn't sufficient 
> by itself.

All your other points aside, yes it is sufficient.  This is appearing 
in an Atom feed which is an XML document, right?  In an XML document, 
element content or attribute value can contain any legal XML character 
(a generous subset of Unicode)... what encoding the XML document is in 
is an orthogonal issue.

[Not commenting on the proposal itself, just saying that this 
particular criticism is off-base] --Tim