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Re: [VCARDDAV] Default charset

Marc Blanchet <marc.blanchet@viagenie.ca> Mon, 22 February 2010 15:11 UTC

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Alexey Melnikov a écrit :
> Marc Blanchet wrote:
> 
>> Cyrus Daboo a écrit :
>>
>>>       Applications MUST generate vCard data in the UTF-8 charset and
>>>       MUST accept vCard data in the UTF-8 or US-ASCII charset.
>>
>> Why should we not stick with UTF-8 only?
> 
> I think accepting US-ASCII is Ok, as it is a proper subset of UTF-8. I 
> suspect lots of stuff is using it now.

right, but vcard4 will require some rewrite anyway. and for the same 
reason (us-ascii is subset of utf-8), it would be no effort for writers 
to tag their us-ascii as utf-8. I have a hard time thinking of a new 
application in 2010 that would not be able to push US-ASCII data tagged 
with utf-8.

Marc.

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