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Re: Character encodings

• From: John Cowan <cowan@l...>
• To: XML Dev <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 16:05:54 -0500

Chris von See scripsit:

> In section 4.3.3, the XML spec implies
> that support of ISO 10646 UCS-2 encoding (i.e. Unicode)

Unicode = UTF-16, not UCS-2.  In practice there is no difference
at the moment, because no 10646 planes other than the BMP (plane 0)
contain any characters.  UTF-16 = Unicode uses surrogate
characters, whereas UCS-2 simply cannot represent the Astral Planes.
Therefore, UTF-16 encoding should be used instead of UCS-2.

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