Re: Mix encodings in a document?

Deke Smith (deke@tallent.com)
Wed, 23 Sep 98 10:30:46 -0500


John Cowan, cowan@locke.ccil.org said on 9/23/98 10:02 AM:

>ISO-10646-UCS-2 is near enough UTF-16; UTF-16 only implies that
>surrogates are correctly processed, and decent UCS-2 implementations
>will at worst leave surrogates alone.

And what is the implications of this (if any) for XML rendering? I'm not
sure of what you mean by "surrogates are correctly processed."

Thanks for everyone's answers. They have helped.

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