XML Output: libxo - provide single API to output TXT, XML, JSON and HTML

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <201407302324.s6UNOB2H087915 at idle.juniper.net>, Phil Shafer writes:
>John-Mark Gurney writes:

>>My vote would be to use and *enforce* UTF-8 by the API.   That means if
>>someone passes a string in, it must be properly formed UTF-8...

Given that libxo is just now starting to stare at trunk and that
the next .0 release is some way of still, the consequences of
enforcing UTF-8 will not be seen by users at large until mid 2015
or so.

The real question is how it will be perceived if we are *not* actively
going UTF-8 by that time?

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