RE: Byte order marks and character sets

["Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenbeck@verisign.com>]

> One longer-term issue remains, and it's not urgent in my 
> mind, but I will
> mention it for completeness. Can you forsee any situations 
> (right now or in
> the future) where UTF16 or other encodings would be desirable and/or
> necessary? If so, can we ensure that the spec doesn't make too many
> assumptions about UTF8 encoding. If UTF8 is RECOMMENDED 
> that's probably
> enough in most cases, but would it be either valid and/or 
> desirable to have
> an EPP server that works entirely in UTF16 for example? Let 
> me stress I have
> no strong views on the subject, although vague topics like 
> "chinese domain
> names" or "use of EPP as a generic provisioning protocol" do 
> occasionally
> cross my mind in this context.

Yes, I think it's entirely possible that the protocol will be used with
encodings other than UTF-8.  As long as you use either UTF-8 or UTF-16 a
conformant XML parser has no problems with either form.  Other encodings
might not be supported by all parsers, but the protocol certainly allows
their use.

-Scott-