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Re: Pango, UTF-8 & Latin1

From: James K.Lowden <jklowden speakeasy org>
To: dia-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Pango, UTF-8 & Latin1
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 07:57:25 -0400

On 31 Jul 2002 13:30:33 -0500, Lars Clausen <lrclause@cs.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> > It may be sufficient for dia to only support utf-8. You generally dont
> > create dia files by hand, so you probably shouldnt care which encoding
> > they are in. 
> 
> We need to support non-utf8 encodings for two reasons:  Backwards
> compatibility and diagrams created by other programs.  

And one more: For other programs that want to read Dia files.  

To break the XML standards is to create a proprietary format.  

--jkl

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