Re: [xsl] F & O 3.0 -- serialize() function question

Subject: Re: [xsl] F & O 3.0 -- serialize() function question
From: "Wolfgang Laun wolfgang.laun@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 19:50:19 -0000
A stream of octets is not a sequence of Unicode characters, i.e., code
points; the latter are integers, the former are octets and cannot be
interpreted unless you know what they signify.
-W

On 01/06/2014, Dimitre Novatchev dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Wolfgang Laun wolfgang.laun@xxxxxxxxx
> <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> To me, this means that the result is, in any case, a sequence of
>> Unicode characters, and not one of octets in any of the possible
>> (UTF-x) encodings.
>
>
> Aren't utf-8 - encoded characters just  "Unicode characters" ?
>
>
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