I'm glad to see that one recipient didn't read something
bizarre into my prefectly simple and helpful reply to the
questionner.
Misha
On 30/08/2001 18:27:10 Addison Phillips wrote:
> That's not what he said in the responses *I* read. Perhaps I missed one on
> this thread. As near as I recall, Misha wrote:
>
> "Of course, EUC (EUC-JP in the
> case of Japanese) may cover all the characters you require, in which
> case there is no problem. Additionally, if you are thinking of XML (or
> HTML) then you can encode *all* Unicode characters in an EUC-encoded
> document, by employing numeric character references for characters
> outside the EUC character repertoire."
>
> IOW> That's not "EUC-unicode". I don't see a mention anywhere of that
> (hypothetical) encoding. That's "EUC-JP with characters outside EUC-JP
> represented as NCRs", and our parser handles that quite well...
>
> Addison
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ayers, Mike [mailto:Mike_Ayers@bmc.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 10:00 AM
> To: 'Addison Phillips [wM]'
> Cc: unicode@unicode.org
> Subject: RE: japanese xml
>
>
>
> > From: Addison Phillips [wM] [mailto:aphillips@webmethods.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 09:51 AM
>
>
> > 4. However, you can use any other encoding, provided you tag the file
> > appropriately (so that the parser knows what the encoding is and can
> > translate it to its internal representation).
>
> Slight but relevant correction: you can use any encoding of which
> the parser is aware.
>
> > 5 You are not required to use EUC-JP for your Japanese XML
> > files: you can
> > use the Unicode encodings directly. In some cases, though, your file
> > editting software may make it easier to work with EUC-JP (or
> > Shift-JIS/Microsoft Code Page 932).
>
> Misha was not talking about EUC-JP, rather EUC-unicode (or some name
> like that), which encodes unicode scalar values using the EUC method, and
> uses character references for those values (most of them) that are outside
> of the EUC encoding range. Have you tested your parser against that?
>
>
> /|/|ike
>
>
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