Subject: Re: [xsl] International Characters in attributes From: "Michael Beddow" <mbnospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:24:32 -0000 |
On Monday, February 12, 2001 10:47 AM David Carlisle wrote > No, in XML and in HTML (4+) a numeric character reference always refers > to the unicode position. It does not refer to th eposition in the > current encoding. Ok we all agree on utf-8 both in theory and practice as fas a XML is concerned. And I know what's supposed to happen in HTML 4+, but I'm not convinced that's gone home to all the browser implementors to judge from the odd things I've seen. The other reason I keep banging on about this is that a lot of people who use my XSLT-generated html are in universities, and you wouldn't believe the number of very early NS4 builds, not to mention NS 3 and even NS2 there are out there on campuses (including well-funded ones) Once you have significant numbers of users like that you simply have to forget what the standards say and fudge like mad to get the characters they expect to see on to their screens. And XSLT is a very good fudging device, even though that may make standards-conformists cringe. > (It isn't only Asian languages that you mention that use "long" utf8 > byte sequences, Unicode 3.1 promises to add around a thousand > mathematical aphanumeric symbols into plane 1, and these will be used by > MathML systems) To be joined by maybe 40,000 more Chinese characters, including a whole bunch needed to work round problems in the existing 20,000 odd in the BMP. Fun days lie ahead. Michael ------------------------------------------ Michael Beddow http://www.mbeddow.net/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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