XML and special Characters : unicode v3.0 ?

[Baden Hughes]

Tim Bray writes:
> > In practice,
> > I've never actually seen anything outside of the BMP, but the
> > experts agree they're showing up real soon now.

John Cowan writes:
> Not until Unicode 4.0, unless someone wants to use the private-use
> planes 15 and 16.

Uh, that's gonna be a problem. How would you put in a PUA character in an
XML doc ? Still by the U+... ? (we have around 800 of them for the languages
we work with !!)

Baden




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