• From: David Megginson <david@m...>
• To: <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: 13 Nov 1999 06:57:30 -0500

"Don Park" <donpark@d...> writes:

> > > Right.  This means that SML is not a good choice for 'documents' nor
> > > encoding data with lots of foreign characters.
> >
> >Foreign to whom?  The World Wide Web?
> 
> By foreign, I meant characters that must be escaped under UTF-8.

Oops!  That also includes characters 128-255, which means all accented
Western European characters (though they consume only two octets each
in UTF-8).


All the best,


David

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