Re: Surrogate support in *ML?

From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Thu Sep 07 2000 - 12:41:27 EDT

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Brendan Murray/DUB/Lotus wrote:

> I know that XML explicitly excludes surrogates.

XML, like any conformant Unicode process, excludes *unpaired* surrogates.
Surrogate-pair characters may be used, though not in XML names, only
in character data. They may appear as themselves or using character
references of the form "𝀀".

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