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Re: MPEG asks for MIME review for the MPEG21 file format

Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> Mon, 21 May 2007 11:03 UTC

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Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 19:30:23 +0900
To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
From: Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: MPEG asks for MIME review for the MPEG21 file format
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At 17:48 07/05/21, Anne van Kesteren wrote:

>"Efficient XML" seems to be more on the content encoding level than the  
>character encoding level to me. (Assuming you meant charset="blah" as  
>opposed to encoding="blah" above given your examples of UTF-8 and  
>UTF-16...)

That's not only you. It seems so to virtually everybody.
That's no surprise, because it IS at that level.
The trick is that it can be handled as if it were a character
encoding. That's where the language lawyers come in.

Regards,   Martin.


#-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
#-#-#  http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp       mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp

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