RE: japanese xml

From: Ayers, Mike (Mike_Ayers@bmc.com)
Date: Thu Aug 30 2001 - 13:16:45 EDT


> From: Misha.Wolf@reuters.com [mailto:Misha.Wolf@reuters.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 10:07 AM
>
> On 30/08/2001 17:53:06 "Ayers, Mike" wrote:
> > > From: Misha.Wolf@reuters.com [mailto:Misha.Wolf@reuters.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 08:36 AM
> >
> > > Furthermore, Viranga's context appears to be XML, in which
> > > case it *is* possible to encode *all* Unicode code points
> > > using EUC (or ISO-8859-1 or ASCII or ...)
> >
> > I ask again - where's the parser that will interpret this?
>
> Every single parser. I quote from my earlier mail:
>
> > Additionally, if you are thinking of XML (or HTML) then
> > you can encode *all* Unicode characters in an EUC-encoded
> > document, by employing numeric character references for
> > characters outside the EUC character repertoire. Using
> > the same technique, you can encode all Unicode characters
> > in an ASCII-encoded document.

        Ah, yes - rereading carefully I see that you are not proposing what
I thought you were proposing. You are also not answering the OP's question,
which was:

<Viranga>

        Is it ok for Unicode code points to be encoded/serialized using EUC?
        I'm not planning on doing this; just wondering what (?if any?)
        restrictions, there are on choice of transformation format.

</Viranga>

        ...which Marco answered correctly.

/|/|ike



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