Cart
[Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries]
I just ran some tests on NEL. I began by replacing all the line breaks with NELs in an existing XML document (the DocBook source for Chapter 9 of Processing XML with Java) and saving that document as both ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8. I then tried to open the resulting documents in all the text editors I use on a day-to-day basis. Not one recognized NEL as a line break. The best behavior was replacing it with the unrecognized character glyph and wrapping all the lines. The worst behavior was placing the entire text of the document on a single line and the application slowing to a crawl. There are clearly very good, practical reasons not to put NEL on the wire. Detailed results follow: jEdit 3.2.2 put the entire file on one line and slowed to a crawl with both UTF-8 and Latin-1 versions Notepad changed the line ends to horizontal ellipses and wrapped the whole file. UltraEdit changed them to ellipses and has flickering redrawing Emacs on Linux in a terminal window represented NEL as \205 and wrapped the whole file into a single line. When I tried the UTF-8 version, it did the same thing but reported the character as \302\205 pico on Linux turned NEL into a with an accent grave. When I fed it the UTF-8 version it turned it into an upside down T plus a with accent grave. Word 2000 on Windows treated the entire document as one long line with a lot of horizontal ellipses. When I told Word the proper encoding it used the missing character glyph. It still didn't break the lines. BBEdit on the Mac read it NEL as capital O with diaresis. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
|
