Mix encodings in a document?

[Tony Graham]

At 23 Sep 1998 16:21 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
 > Deke Smith wrote:
 > > And what is the implications of this (if any) for XML rendering? I'm not
 > > sure of what you mean by "surrogates are correctly processed."
 > 
 > Essentially it means that the two 16-bit values that form a
 > surrogate-pair (representing a Unicode character on the Astral
 > Plane) is always treated as a single character.
 > 
 > In XML, surrogate-pairs can appear only in attribute values, #PCDATA
 > content, PIs, and comments; they are not allowed in element GIs,
 > attribute names, or the like.

Surrogate pairs are not allowed in parsed entities.  The production
for Char excludes the surrogate blocks:

[2] Char::= #x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-#xD7FF] | [#xE000-#xFFFD]
            | [#x10000-#x10FFFF]

You can include non-BMP/non-UCS-2 characters by making numeric
references to their Unicode Scalar Value (or by using UCS-4).

Regards,


Tony Graham
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