Re: Can a single text document use multiple character encodings?

The answer is "no" only for text-based web formats. But web formats also
include many binary formats used as containers for multiple internal
contents, and each one, if it is plain-text may have its own local
encoding, even if there's a single encoding used for the transport
enveloppe (e.g. a Binary-64 encoded container will use a plain-text
external format, for transporting multiple data parts. Once the parts are
separated from the envoloppe format, and Base-64 encoding returns to binary
format, the internal structure may have its own metadata types and
encodings.

Media files such as videos may contain multiple streams, e.g. one for each
language embedded for subtitling, and each language version may have its
own encoding. Some media file formats were designed for the web and
standardized (e.g. MPEG files which are containers for multiple streams,
that are eigher fully independant, or mutually synchronized on reference
frame numbers or timestamps).

2013/8/28 Phillips, Addison <addison_at_lab126.com>

> What kind of document do you mean?
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> For Web formats (HTML, etc.), the answer is "no".
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> Addison
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> Addison Phillips
> Globalization Architect (Amazon Lab126)
> Chair (W3C I18N WG)
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> Internationalization is not a feature.
> It is an architecture.
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: unicode-bounce_at_unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce_at_unicode.org] On
> > Behalf Of Costello, Roger L.
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 12:07 PM
> > To: unicode_at_unicode.org
> > Subject: Can a single text document use multiple character encodings?
> >
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > Can a single text document use multiple character encodings?
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> > For example, can some text be encoded as UTF-8 while other text is
> encoded as
> > UTF-16 - within the same document?
> >
> > /Roger
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Received on Wed Aug 28 2013 - 15:25:29 CDT