Re: character encoding questions

Rick Jelliffe (ricko@allette.com.au)
Wed, 16 Jul 1997 23:53:33 +1000



> From: Christina Portillo <Alice.Portillo@PSS.boeing.com>

> My questions are:
> 1. How are the software vendors (browser, parser, authoring) planning on
> supporting documents which utilize the UNICODE character set?

I am using EditTime at the moment: it supports Unicode document character set
and ENR extended naming rules SGML declaration. It is not officially XML,
but you can type in /> for EMPTY elements, so you can create XML documents.

I don't know whether it allows &#x hexadecimal numeric character references,
but it certainly supports SPREAD-style &U hexadeclimal entity references, so
it can be trivially converted to XML.

They seem to have Japanese & Chinese versions available, and also support the
European scripts.

Rick Jelliffe