Re: Is there Unicode mail out there?

From: Tex Texin (texin@progress.com)
Date: Sun Jul 15 2001 - 00:15:43 EDT

Mark,
Hi. I am not sure why you say this. &lt; is often used for "<"
but &#X003C; works in both IE 5 and Netscape 4.7.

&#X0007; shows a box though...

But I was not aware of any restrictions on numeric character
references. Is there a list of restrictions somewhere?
tex

Mark Davis wrote:
>
> No, but it is for the vast majority.
>
> Some have to be written specially, e.g. &lt;
>
> Some cannot be written at all, e.g. U+0007 (but U+0087 can be!)
>
> Mark
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Everson" <everson@indigo.ie>
> To: <unicode@unicode.org>
> Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 05:10
> Subject: Re: Is there Unicode mail out there?
>
> > At 11:07 -0400 2001-07-13, Tex Texin wrote:
> >
> > >Maybe writing the value as an HTML numeric character reference (e.g.
> > >&#X20AC;) would also make it easier for processes reading files
> > >saved by the mailer
> > >to recover the character.
> >
> > Perhaps I have been asleep, but is that notation (&#Xxxxx;) valid
> > HTML for all Unicode characters?
> > --
> > Michael Everson 

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