On Feb 1, 2004, at 2:35 PM, Martin Duerst wrote:
The administrator viewpoint is important. But there are many different
administrators. Administrators in China, for example, would most
probably
prefer to use Chinese characters directly
exactly. One great reason to store information in a format like XML as
meta-data, and let the system pull it out and display it in a native
format, rather than embed headers in things and assume everyone can
read it in whatever format it was sent as. <subject>foo</subject>
means something very different than 'Subject: foo' here, and is a lot
more extensible and localizable.