Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-tomcat-user-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 53784 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2001 10:37:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nagoya.betaversion.org) (192.18.49.131) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 3 Dec 2001 10:37:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 5742 invoked by uid 97); 3 Dec 2001 10:36:44 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 5726 invoked by uid 97); 3 Dec 2001 10:36:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact tomcat-user-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Tomcat Users List" Reply-To: "Tomcat Users List" Delivered-To: mailing list tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 5715 invoked from network); 3 Dec 2001 10:36:43 -0000 Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20011203113539.023a7120@lucas> X-Sender: jchees@lucas X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 11:39:44 +0100 To: "Tomcat Users List" From: Jim Cheesman Subject: Re: Jsp compile option for Big5 encoding / encoding question In-Reply-To: <20011202235214.K57355-100000@localhost> References: <4.3.1.2.20011203090612.022e3260@lucas> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N At 09:02 AM 03/12/01, you wrote: And thanks for the (mostly) snipped answer. > > At 01:53 AM 03/12/01, you wrote: > > >This default is required by the Servlet and JSP specifications, so it is > > >not configurable. > > > > > > So why did they decide against unicode??? Shouldn't that be the standard? > > > >Does your browser support Unicode directly? Do you really want to pay >16-bit output (or potentially more, for future versions of Unicode) >overhead for every single character? Yes, I would like to pay that. I already pay a 7/8 bit overhead, and a supposedly machine independent language would be well served by further internationalisation. I already accept that java is not as fast as, say, C, so what's the problem? Set the default as unicode, and then allow people to downgrade to a subset if the performance overhead is critical. -- * Jim Cheesman * Trabajo: jchees@msl.es - (34)(91) 724 9200 x 2360 Help stamp out and eradicate superfluous redundancy -- To unsubscribe: For additional commands: Troubles with the list: