When You Do Not Need the Internationalization Module

SourcePro Core : XML Streams Module User’s Guide : International Features of the XML Streams Module : Determining your Character Encoding Needs : Deciding if You Need the Internationalization Module : When You Do Not Need the Internationalization Module

You do not need the Internationalization Module if you know you will be building XML streams in one of the following encodings:

UTF-8

US-ASCII

ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1, a superset of US-ASCII)

UTF-16BE or UTF-16LE

(“BE” and “LE” signify “big endian” or “little endian” and refer to how bytes in a multibyte string are sorted when converted to a numeric representation. Big endian places the most significant byte at the lowest address, storing the “big end first.” By contrast, little endian places the least significant bytes at lower addresses, storing the “little end first.” The default for UTF-16 is BE, unless specified otherwise.)

SourcePro’s regular string and stream processing classes can accommodate these five encodings without linking the Internationalization Module.

If you need conversion to and from other encodings, or more advanced manipulation of strings in UTF-16, you will want to use the Internationalization Module.