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RE: XML Max Character Value

• To: "Alan Gutierrez" <alan-xml-dev@e...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: XML Max Character Value
• From: "Derek Denny-Brown" <derekdb@m...>
• Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:28:40 -0700
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• Thread-topic: XML Max Character Value

In java, 0xFFFE or 0xFFFF should work.  They aren't strictly the max
Unicode character for XML, but since Java represents Unicode as utf-16
but doesn't really provide much support for surrogate pairs (last I
checked), those should work.  Hm.. Eclipse tells me that there is
Character.MAX_VALUE.  Use at your own risk.

Reading up on Unicode is also recommended though... internationalization
is far, far more complicated than you ever imagined.  I know people who
get the shakes if you just mention "Turkish 'I'" in their presence.
(mild exaggeration...)

-derek

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Gutierrez [mailto:alan-xml-dev@e...]
> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 9:20 PM
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject:  XML Max Character Value
> 
>     I'm implementing B-Tree to index XML documents. I'd like a
>     to use maximum character value as a boundry, or failing that a
>     minimum character value.
> 
>     I'm working in Java.
> 
>     Is there a maximum character value guarunteed  be greater than
>     any other character regardless of the locale? Is that character
>     Character.MAX_VALUE?
> 
>     Or do I have to read a book on Unicode? Which one?
> 
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