XML and special Characters : unicode v3.0 ?

John Cowan cowan at locke.ccil.org
Mon Mar 1 17:59:53 GMT 1999


Baden Hughes wrote:

> For instance, the Sinhala character set was not in Unicode 2.0 but will be
> in 3.0. How do I get one of those characters in an XML document ? Or is that
> inconsequential to the document per se as it is simply a reference and its
> really up to the application to render it correctly ?

There is a discrepancy between the prose, which says "legal Unicode/10646
characters" and references old versions of these standards, and
the BNF, which says the Char production handles everything except
known control characters (and even some of those).

Don't worry.  The problem will be resolved.

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John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan at ccil.org
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)

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