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Thought I would share Peter Flynn response on escape codes with you all. Christina Portillo Product Definition and Image Technology The Boeing Company Phone: 425.237.3351 PO Box 3707 M/S 6H-AF Fax: 425.237.3428 Seattle, WA 98124-2207 christina.portillo@b... > ---------- > From: Peter Flynn[SMTP:pflynn@i...] > Sent: Monday, September 22, 1997 7:15 PM > To: Christina Portillo > Subject: Use of Escape Codes and Characters > > At 20:13 22/05/97 +0100, you wrote: > >Q == "Question=0D How do you encode in your XML document references > to= > >characters above 126 in the ISO646 character set. > >So of the character= > >classes defined in the standard: space, char, letter, Base Char, = > >Ideographic, CombiningChar, Letter, Digit, Ignorable, and Extender > which= > >of these has to be escaped to be used in a document. OR from what = > >index value down must escape codes be used." > > I'm sorry to have delayed answering this but the character set > question > became rather vexed :-) > > The simple answer is you escape any code you can't type as a character > or byte combination. In other words, if you are working in ASCII, but > you can generate an e-acute with the correct code (ie ISO 10646, not > Windows :-) then you should be able to do so, and embed that byte in > the file. If you need a Hangul glyph and you can't type it, then you > need to use the escaped code: presumably users on Hangul systems can > generate all their own characters at the keyboard. > > But in practice I think we'll need to see how/if the browsers > implement > non-Latin character repertoires. > > ///Peter > 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...)
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