Feeler for SML (Simple Markup Language)

[David Megginson]

"Don Park" <donpark at docuverse.com> writes:

> > > Right.  This means that SML is not a good choice for 'documents' nor
> > > encoding data with lots of foreign characters.
> >
> >Foreign to whom?  The World Wide Web?
> 
> By foreign, I meant characters that must be escaped under UTF-8.

Oops!  That also includes characters 128-255, which means all accented
Western European characters (though they consume only two octets each
in UTF-8).


All the best,


David

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