Re-Hi,
Here is a very good tool to play with character encoding...
http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelPad.htmlPascal
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Pascal Sancho
> Envoyé : mardi 8 juillet 2008 15:47
>
> Hi Rakesh,
>
> In a well-formed xml, you may use any encoding you want.
> If your text nodes contains characters that are not part of
> the encoding pattern, then you have to use character entities.
>
> To choose the character encoding, you should consider:
> - environment (what encoding is supported by your
> system/your applications)
> - human readable (not easy when there is too many character encoding)
> - file size:
> a US text in UTF-8 or US-ASCII is about 1 byte-per-char
> an asian text can be:
> - about 3 or 4 byte-per-char in UTF-8
> - about 2 byte-per-char in UTF-16
> - about 8 byte-per-char in US-ASCII (using characters
> entities, like 豈
>
> In your case, I think the best choice should be UTF-16.
>
> See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encoding.
>
> Note that XML rec [1] says that All XML processors must
> accept the UTF-8 and UTF-16 encodings.
>
> [1]
http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#charsets>
> HTH,
>
> Pascal
>
>
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : Rakesh Kumar S [mailto:
Rakesh_Kumar06@...]
> > Envoyé : mardi 8 juillet 2008 14:03
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Which is the encoding format that will support both asian
> language and
> > western fonts?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rakesh Kumar S
>
>
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