Re: Is there Unicode mail out there?

From: Mark Davis (mark@macchiato.com)
Date: Sun Jul 15 2001 - 01:20:29 EDT

Take a look at the XML standard.

Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tex Texin" <texin@progress.com>
To: "Mark Davis" <mark@macchiato.com>
Cc: <unicode@unicode.org>; "Michael Everson" <everson@indigo.ie>
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 21:15
Subject: Re: Is there Unicode mail out there?

> Mark,
> Hi. I am not sure why you say this. &lt; is often used for "<"
> but &#X003C; works in both IE 5 and Netscape 4.7.
>
> &#X0007; shows a box though...
>
> But I was not aware of any restrictions on numeric character
> references. Is there a list of restrictions somewhere?
> tex
>
>
> Mark Davis wrote:
> >
> > No, but it is for the vast majority.
> >
> > Some have to be written specially, e.g. &lt;
> >
> > Some cannot be written at all, e.g. U+0007 (but U+0087 can be!)
> >
> > Mark
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Michael Everson" <everson@indigo.ie>
> > To: <unicode@unicode.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 05:10
> > Subject: Re: Is there Unicode mail out there?
> >
> > > At 11:07 -0400 2001-07-13, Tex Texin wrote:
> > >
> > > >Maybe writing the value as an HTML numeric character reference (e.g.
> > > >&#X20AC;) 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?
> > > --
> > > Michael Everson
>
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