• From: David Megginson <ak117@f...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 07:06:32 -0500

James Clark writes:

 > Are you saying that Java's 16-bit characters prevent complete support
 > for some of those encodings in an XML parser?  If so, I don't see why,
 > since XML doesn't allow characters >= 0x110000, all legal XML characters
 > are representable in UTF-16 and hence in Java.

Quite right, I wasn't connecting the two -- Java supports UCS-4 only
to the extent allowed by surrogates in UTF-16, but that's the limit in
XML as well, so there should be no problem (at least, not until
Unicode starts assigning codes >= 0x110000, in which case the problem
will be both Java's and XML's).


All the best,


David

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