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[ddlm-group] On process
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- From: Brian McMahon <bm@iucr.org>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 09:25:00 +0100
Colleagues Like Buridan's ass we are starving to death between the equally enticing mound of hay that is UTF-8 and the smorgasbord of mixed vegetables offered by multiple encodings. I suggest that this group complete a *draft* CIF2 specification that describes (if necessary) specific character allusions in terms of a canonical UTF-8 encoding, and states that UTF-8 is the designated encoding for files conformant to the specification. Post the completed draft in the first instance to the cif-developers list (since that is supposed to the the most relevant target audience), but certainly to other lists at the same time if folk think that would be productive. By all means accompany the release with a commentary on the difficulties we have faced over the encoding issue; by all means implement a survey and analyse the results to assess community demand for an upward revision of the draft - but let us give people something concrete to begin with, and challenge them actively to protest if the proposal will impede their work. Note that this proposal doesn't necessarily reflect a personal preference for a single mandatory encoding - I still cannot decide which I "prefer". But if the suggested draft is published, I will not vote against it unless I suddenly see clearly a real problem that it would throw up in the way of any applications I would envisage writing. I would hope "the community" would respond in similar vein, so that stated objections would both represent real difficulties and help to define the environments giving rise to these real difficulties. Best wishes Brian _______________________________________________ ddlm-group mailing list ddlm-group@iucr.org http://scripts.iucr.org/mailman/listinfo/ddlm-group
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