RE: Unicode and XSL (was substring())

Subject: RE: Unicode and XSL (was substring())
From: shalperin@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Shalperin)
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 13:35:49 -0700
> From: James Clark <jjc@xxxxxxxxxx> 
> Sent: Sunday, June 06, 1999 11:28 AM
>
> I basically agree with this.  Counting characters by counting the the
> 16-bit quantities that encode characters in UTF-16 makes about as much
> sense as counting characters by counting the 8-bit quantities that
> encode characters in UTF-8 (which would mean for example that a dollar
> counts as one character, and a pound sterling sign counts as 2
> charcaters).  The counter-argument to this is ...

<snip>

"counter-argument"

Heh, heh, well said.  :)

-s


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