Hi Michael, I’ve not caught one in the savannah either! I've not had a customer request for it either, that, or the request did not make it through our sales engineers, professional services, or tech support all the way to me.
Our products are XML and buzzword compliant and I am checking my Ps and Qs. So, at this point, the point is rather academic as you mention. I am aware of the inefficiencies involved, but our customers can decide how efficient they want to be for themselves, sometimes they have no control over the format of the documents they have to process with our software. For those who can control the format, I do not know if someone has tried UTF-32, watched it blow up and then switched to something. Now, out of curiosity, I do notice a org.apache.xerces.impl.io.UCSReader class in Xerces which is used from a couple of places. Is that not hooked up in all the right spots? Gary On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Michael Glavassevich <mrgla...@ca.ibm.com>wrote: > Hi Gary, > > There haven't been any plans for UTF-32 support. It seems you're the first > [1] (and only) one who has asked about it on the project lists. > > Is this just an academic question or do you have an actual need for it? > > I must say I've never seen a UTF-32 encoded document in the wild. In my > opinion it's a very inefficient encoding. Always uses 32-bits to represent > a character when the largest Unicode code point only requires 21-bits. > UTF-8 and UTF-16 only ever use that much space for supplementary characters > (i.e. code points greater than U+FFFF). > > Thanks. > > [1] http://xerces-j.markmail.org/search/?q=UTF-32 > > Michael Glavassevich > XML Technologies and WAS Development > IBM Toronto Lab > E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com > E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org > > Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote on 13/08/2012 01:49:46 PM: > > > > Hi All: > > > > Any plans to support UTF-32 BOM? > > > > Currently, if I parse a UTF-32 document I get 'content not expected > > in prolog" error. > > > > Thank you, > > Gary > > > > -- > > E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org > > JUnit in Action, 2nd Ed: > http://bit.ly/ECvg0 > > > Spring Batch in Action: http://bit.ly/bqpbCK > > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com > > Home: http://garygregory.com/ > > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org JUnit in Action, 2nd Ed: <http://goog_1249600977>http://bit.ly/ECvg0 Spring Batch in Action: <http://s.apache.org/HOq>http://bit.ly/bqpbCK Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
