[OSM-dev] planet.osm - fix

[Lars Aronsson]

David Sheldon wrote:

> XML specifies UTF-8 as the default if no encoding is specified. 

Correct.

> I vote for ASCII, and anything that cannot be represented in ASCII being
> represented by entities in the &#..; form.

This is a requirement that differs from the XML standard.  If your 
proposal is accepted, then I cannot use just any 
standard-conformant XML library that correctly outputs UTF-8, but 
I must write my own encoding routines that only output ASCII with 
&#..; entities.  That makes things a whole lot more complicated.
Did we come here to write XML encoders/parsers or did we come here 
to create free maps?

I vote for standard XML.


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