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On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 14:23, John Cowan wrote: > Simon St.Laurent wrote: > > Surrogate pairs are very tricky critters that seem to me to require > > substantially more programming care than any other aspect of Unicode, > > and I suspect that developers will be cursing them for a long time to come. > > When you are using a language that hard-codes "char" to mean "16 bits", > then yes. It beats 8 bits, certainly, but... Just in curiosity, what languages support 32-bit characters? (I tend to live in Java and various scripting languages.) > > The testing I've been able to perform so far is pretty crude stuff. If > > anyone with more experience in Unicode or better tools for creating test > > documents has time to explore this work, I'd greatly appreciate it. As > > XML 1.0 parsers already perform some of this testing, creating tests > > that go outside of those bounds and reach gorille (not just the parser) > > is tricky. > > > IIRC, Aelfred (not Aelfred2) doesn't actually check these things. > > A JAXP wrapper for it might be useful. Yet another good project. I can probably just plug it into the SAX2 adapter classes, when I find more time for this. -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com
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