RE: [syndication] Sneak Preview: my.info

[Daniel Dočekal <ddoc@mia.cz>]

> > This is of course interesting - our feed is in Windows-1250 
> (Sort of Latin-2
> > and very close to 8859-2). But what if i subscribe to feed 
> in Big Chinese?
> > When listed in one page (at my.theinfo.org) together, that 
> would make big
> > mess :(
> 
> Presuming you correctly declare the encoding in your RSS file's XML
> declaration, and Aaron's parser can handle that encoding, the 
> XML parser
> in will grok it OK and convert it into Unicode. Aaron's code then
> translates that Unicode into ISO-8859-1 explicitly for publication on
> his web page. Thus his indication of the ISO-8859-1 as the charset is
> still correct.
> 
> Of course, it will probably still all blow up horribly if the 
> equivalent
> characters aren't available in ISO-8859-1. The only sure way is to for
> Aaron to make his web page use the Unicode encoding.

Yes, you are right. There should be one common encoding platform and Unicode
is the right one. Stupid me :)

So it's on Aaron to implement Unicode (UTF-8 or UTF-16 if am i correct).

Daniel