Re: Re: [SOAP] web services

Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 05:23:10PM -0500 in <20030321222311.15076.qmail@pb1.pair.com>, Bill Kearney <wkearney99@hotmail.com> spake: >Unless, of course, you need real text encoding. >XML-RPC *only* supports USASCII. No unicode, not even ISO-8859-1. And it's >spec author actively fights /against/ improving this situation. And that's just a complete deal-breaker, because Cthulhu knows it's so hard to urlencode text if you're trying to send non-ASCII characters in XML-RPC. Dave probably should have made it Unicode from the start, or made a new spec supporting it, no question. But he hasn't, because he didn't want to fragment the market, it works fine for 99% of the applications, and the easy way around the problem makes it unlikely that he'll ever need to release a new spec. -- <a href="http://kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu/~kamikaze/"> Mark Hughes </a>