From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2001-10-04T18:57:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22067] Re: writing UTF-8  strings

Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

 > Just print.  UTF-8 is ASCII compatible, so when you use only ascii
 > region characters, it's no difference between ASCII string and UTF-8
 > string.

So what do I declare?:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>

Is there a difference between an ASCII string and a UTF-8 string with 
only ascii region characters?

[...] And since Ruby is 8bit clean, when you type in UTF-8 strings
 > in your script, they just work fine.

XML implementations are required to handle UTF-8.
I'm serving SVG, which is XML, so I'd like to serve UTF-8;
with UTF-16, it seems to be the only thing I can be sure of that the 
client can handle it.

With Ruby, would use UTF-8 characters, serve ASCII, and declare it's UTF-8?

Tobi

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