Re: Nicest UTF

From: Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk (qrczak@knm.org.pl)
Date: Fri Dec 10 2004 - 17:47:03 CST

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John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> writes:

>> > The XML/HTML core syntax is defined with fixed behavior of some
>> > individual characters like '&', '<', quotation marks, and with special
>> > behavior for spaces.
>>
>> The point is: what "characters" mean in this sentence. Code points?
>> Combining character sequences? Something else?
>
> Neither. Unicode characters.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#charsets
implies that the appropriate level for parsing XML is code points.

In particular XML allows a combining character directly after ">".

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