Re: PR.xml

Sean Mc Grath (digitome@iol.ie)
Sat, 17 Jan 1998 12:08:06 +0000

I received this from David Durand who cannot currently post to
XML-DEV. I have Davids permission to forward it to the list.

[David Durand]
>
>In a nutshell: 16-bit character codes. Diaritics (accents, Vowel signs in
>Devanagari, etc.) represented (preferably) as combining characters, although
>some precombined characters are available for compatibility with old documents
>and software (political concession). For compatiblity with ISO's 32(31?) bit
>standard some escape sequences can include characters > 65537 (these are the
>"Surrogate" characters).
>
>You need the book for the details of handling bidirectional text rendering,
>word breaking, etc. etc. The scripts of the world cover a very wide space.
>
Sean Mc Grath

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