• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• To: "'Alessandro Triglia'" <sandro@m...>
• Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:51:36 +0100

> I read "ASCII character" in a similar way as I read "TCP/IP 
> packet" or "SOAP envelope" or "HTTP header".  Perhaps other 
> people read it differently.


No, I read it the same.

I think that an ASCII character is a Unicode character in the same way that
an XML document is an SGML document. One thing can conform to more than one
description.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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