Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.datemas.de!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!news.dfncis.de!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: A proposal to handle file encodings Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 13:13:25 +0100 Lines: 8 Message-ID: References: <50aed080$0$292$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.dfncis.de G5fjuI/F4rw+m9/uqBYWNwXKRtKbJntPawF4s52Z4SJNB+t76ICg6KJgO1fkxOrvmcq3pDve9Q Cancel-Lock: sha1:A6pqSmGxC3+giQMlIlX6Rx4YUJU= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121028 Thunderbird/16.0.1 In-Reply-To: <50aed080$0$292$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:19930 Am 23.11.2012 02:25, schrieb Arne Vajhøj: > It is a bad idea to have meta data in the file body. This meta data > should be where the rest of meta data are. Now which OS actually supports this idea? Are you saying that XML is bad, because it contains metadata (i.e. the encoding/charset) inside the file body?