Re: Is there Unicode mail out there?

From: Tex Texin (texin@progress.com)
Date: Sun Jul 15 2001 - 02:01:45 EDT

Mark,
ok thanks. XML restricts the character set which by implication
restricts the NCR values. I see that > can't use an NCR but <
can.

tex

Mark Davis wrote:
>
> Take a look at the XML standard.
>
> Mark
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tex Texin" <texin@progress.com>
> > 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!) 

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