Re: charset use of UTF-16 vs. utf-8

[Tim Bray <tbray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Larry Masinter wrote:

> Some applications of XML as a data representation mechanism

..etc..

OK, OK.  I just keep having heartburn at the thought of putting extra 
software in the pipeline whose only purpose is to throw well-formed 
messages on the floor because they are in an encoding that would be 
successfully read by the deployed software if it were allowed through. 
Bleccch.

FWIW, this is the *only* item in this whole spec that I think is really 
IETF-specific; i.e. for the rest of it, I'd point the whole world at it 
and say "this is the right way to do XML".  Now I'm going to have to say 
"... but ignore the stuff about utf8-only."

Still a good document.  -Tim

(Er, assuming you pitch the XML Schema-centricity)