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Actually, you dropped all the text I wrote ... :) I think that what you've sent is in agreement with what I wrote. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gavin Thomas Nicol" <gtn@r...> To: <xml-dev@l...> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 2:00 PM Subject: Re: ANN: Gorille 0.3 > On Saturday 12 January 2002 04:12 pm, David Brownell wrote: > > > >And also, do surrogate pairs really introduce any issues that > > > >are not already present in combining character sequences? > > > > > > Yes, I think they do. In particular for this thread, XML 1.0 names > > > (and probably XML 1.1 names) can be checked for well-formedness > > > and validity without worrying about combining characters. > > This is more an issue with processing UTF-16. If you always work at > the scalar for validation the issue goes away. This is obvious, but > it's important to blur the character vs. encoding issue. > > As characters, surrogate pairs have fewer issues than combining > sequences for display (or certainly no extra issues). > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> >
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