Isn't encoding just the way to get from the data to a list of integers
(each one representing a glyph)? If this is the case couldn't we pick a
single encoding to support in VRML and get rid of the encoding field?
Picking a single encoding does not restrict the language or the selection
of glyphs rendered, assuming we select an encoding that can represent
enough integers for any coded_character_set. And I thought UTF8 was such
an encoding. Since text in VRML is not nearly as fundamental as it is in
HTML, I would think that such a restriction would be acceptable to those
with an emotional attachment to another encoding.
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