> Rick Jelliffe wrote:
>
> > I hope that the schema people will look at
> > a solution for constraining strings to use certain repertoires of
> > characters.
>
> And I hope that they allow no such thing, except perhaps as a fall-out
> from some regex or other local syntax mechanism.
Why not? This would be very useful for constraining what can be put into a database, many (most?) of which do not support Unicode.
-- Ron Bourret