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I am told that conversion of some character sets through Unicode is lossy and cannot be round-tripped. But it occurs ot me that as long as one has the private use area, "unknown" characters can always be preserved. If a particular mapping loses information, isn't that more a weakness in the mapping then in Unicode itself? Are there some standardized national character sets with so many non-Unicode characters that they cannot fit into the PUA? Even with planes 15 and 16? Is there any character set in the world that cannot be considered a "subset of Unicode"? -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for himself The new revolutionaries believe the time has come for an aggressive move against our oppressors. We have established a solid beachhead on Friday. We now intend to fight vigorously for 'casual Thursdays.' -- who says America's revolutionary spirit is dead? 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/ or CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 Unsubscribe by posting to majordom@i... the message unsubscribe xml-dev (or) unsubscribe xml-dev your-subscribed-email@your-subscribed-address Please note: New list subscriptions now closed in preparation for transfer to OASIS.
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