Re: Is there Unicode mail out there?

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Sat Jul 14 2001 - 12:56:48 EDT


At 09:49 -0700 2001-07-14, Mark Davis wrote:

> > >Maybe writing the value as an HTML numeric character reference (e.g.
> > >€) would also make it easier for processes reading files
> > >saved by the mailer
> > >to recover the character.
> >
> > Perhaps I have been asleep, but is that notation (&#Xxxxx;) valid
> > HTML for all Unicode characters?
>
>No, but it is for the vast majority.
>
>Some have to be written specially, e.g. <
>
>Some cannot be written at all, e.g. U+0007 (but U+0087 can be!)

Then it's not standard and can't be relied upon. Pity.

-- 
Michael Everson



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