Re: [xml-dev] XML 1.1 grinds to halt?

From
Tim Bray <>
To
Rick Jelliffe <>
Date
2003-04-29T14:42:34Z
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Re: [xml-dev] XML 1.1 grinds to halt?
Rick Jelliffe wrote:

> Time is on XML 1.1's side:  even Java is only just reaching Unicode 3.2
> just as Unicode 4 is released. 

Really?  I just looked at a recent set of Java docs, and it's pretty 
clear that a Java char isn't really a character, it's a UTF-16 
codepoint, and the semantics of String are wrong for non-BMP characters, 
and that the attempt at UTF-8 support remains pretty laughably 
nonstandard and wrong.  I'd be *delighted* to hear that I'm looking at 
wrong/obsolete docs.  Pointers anyone? -Tim