• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• To: "Matthew J. Evans" <mje@s...>, "xml-dev@i..." <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 16:51:07 -0800

At 05:36 PM 05/01/98 -0700, Matthew J. Evans wrote:
>How is SAX going to handle Unicode, especially sending 16-bit chars 
>(UTF-16) to callback functions? Sending void*'s and/or char*'s in the 
>callbacks will leave the application and/or parser guessing what was sent. 
>Sending byte order marks in every string seems rather impractical, 
>especially since UTF-16 can have null bytes making most string objects 
>useless anyway.

SAX is a Java interface.  Thus the Strings and chars and so no are
all 16-bit-only; the parser will have taken care of all the BOMs
and encoding jiggery-pokery and so on.

On the IDL end of things, not sure what the right way to do it is. -Tim


xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i...
Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/
To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message;
(un)subscribe xml-dev
To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message;
subscribe xml-dev-digest
List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)

• Prev by Date: SAX and Unicode question
• Next by Date: Re: SAX: Document Start and End (question 1 of 10)
• Previous by thread: SAX and Unicode question
• Next by thread: Re: anti-goals
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread