• From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
• To: David Lee <dlee@c...>, "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:36:14 +0000

On 01/03/2013 06:30, David Lee wrote:
> Curious .. Is this a common misconception ?
> How prevenant is the confusion between xml encoding and the infoset or XDM character model of Unicode codepoints?  Encoding charset != Unicode codepoints.  Simple!!!!!???
>
> I hinted at this months ago on this list that I believe the level of misunderstanding of encoding and Unicode concepts is both high and not self recognized.  Which is a deadly combination.
> Is there more "the community" can do to make it clearer?
>

If there is, please let me know.

I've been advising people how to solve character encoding issues for 
about 100 years, but our own internal system for handling Saxon license 
requests still gets it wrong. It ain't easy.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

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