Unicode in VOTable

[Walter Landry]

Hi Norman,

Norman Gray <norman at astro.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
> The only place (I think) where there's any need for discussing a
> unicode serialisation is within BINARY blobs.  I doubt there's even
> a need for discussing it within FITS blobs, since their internal
> encoding is already specified elsewhere.

I am sorry if I gave the impression otherwise, but for this discussion
I have always only been interested in BINARY2 blobs.  In particular, I
want to know how to read and write Unicode characters into BINARY2
blobs.  Is it OK to put UTF-8 into an "ASCII Character" array, or
UTF-16 into a "Unicode Character" array?  The current standard says
no.  Can we all agree that it should say yes?

Thanks,
Walter Landry