• From: digitome@i... (Sean Mc Grath)
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: 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

sean@d...
Digitome Electronic Publishing
http://www.digitome.com


xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i...
Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/
To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message;
(un)subscribe xml-dev
To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message;
subscribe xml-dev-digest
List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)

• Prev by Date: Re: Partial XML Processors (was Re: JavaScript parser update and Questions)
• Next by Date: Re: Character Encoding and the XML PR (was Re: PR.xml)
• Previous by thread: Re: PR.xml
• Next by thread: RE: Documentation of DTDs
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread