> Are you saying that Java's 16-bit characters prevent complete support
> for some of those encodings in an XML parser? If so, I don't see why,
> since XML doesn't allow characters >= 0x110000, all legal XML characters
> are representable in UTF-16 and hence in Java.
Quite right, I wasn't connecting the two -- Java supports UCS-4 only
to the extent allowed by surrogates in UTF-16, but that's the limit in
XML as well, so there should be no problem (at least, not until
Unicode starts assigning codes >= 0x110000, in which case the problem
will be both Java's and XML's).
All the best,
David
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