GNU gettext - Bugs: bug #52932, XML doesn’t default to UTF-8

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bug #52932: XML doesn’t default to UTF-8

Submitter:	Piotr Drąg <piotrdrag>
Submitted:	Fri 19 Jan 2018 03:36:25 PM UTC
Category:	XML	Severity:	3 - Normal
Item Group:	None	Status:	Need Info
Privacy:	Public	Assigned to:	None
Open/Closed:	Open

Tue 23 Jan 2018 09:38:16 AM UTC, comment #2:  Because XML's default encoding, when the file lacks a BOM, or an encoding statement, is UTF-8, and it's considered a "fatal error" to be in a different encoding than the one specified (explicitly or not). https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#charencoding	Bastien Nocera <hadess>
Fri 19 Jan 2018 04:18:37 PM UTC, comment #1:  Why? Why make an assumption about the encoding (that assumption can be wrong) - thus possibly produce an file in another encoding than the one the caller expects? When we have a way to get away without this assumption and produce a valid and unambiguous XML always.	Bruno Haible <haible>
Fri 19 Jan 2018 03:36:25 PM UTC, original submission:   If an XML file doesn’t specify encoding (or the XML declaration is missing altogether), then gettext uses an alternative character representation (&#xXXXX;). It should rather just default to UTF-8.	Piotr Drąg <piotrdrag>

 

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