• To: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Subject: Re: ANN: Gorille 0.3
• From: Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...>
• Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 15:15:17 -0800
• Cc: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>, xml-dev@l...
• References: <4.2.0.58.20020110131719.012c5f00@p...> <p04330108b8639049050c@[192.168.254.4]> <3C3DF808.1020801@t...>

Tim Bray wrote:
> Elliote is right about the irritating fact that a Java
> "char" isn't an XML character.  The nasty fact is that
> I suspect many Java application programmers will end up
> simply blowing off non-BMP text either through ignorance
> or based on a decision that it's not cost-effective.  -Tim

For those of us who *are* ignorant about this, could we get a quick
explanation? (Among other things, what's the difference between a
character and a "code point", assuming I'm using the correct
terminology...)

Thanks,

-- Ron

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