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Ronald Bourret writes: > Why not? This would be very useful for constraining what can be > put into a database, many (most?) of which do not support Unicode. There are three, much better choices for specific problems like this: 1. Have the application throw an error if an out-of-range character appears. 2. Convert the text to UTF-8 before storing it in the database (UTF-8 and ASCII are identical up to 0x7f) 3. Escape non-ASCII characters with character references before storing the text in the database. As I mentioned before, it's always better to be explicit about this kind of thing -- syntactic subtlety is a bad thing. All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ 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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