[XML-SIG] Re: Issues with Unicode type

[Uche Ogbuji]

> > On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 21:27, Uche Ogbuji wrote:
> Having said all this, Martin is right about XML and the BMP.  I'd forgotten.

See, I knew I'd make a silly of myself before this thread went very long.

I wasn't even properly reading what I was quoting from the XML spec:

> Character Range
> [2]  Char ::= #x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-#xD7FF] | [#xE000-#xFFFD] | 
> [#x10000-#x10FFFF] /* any Unicode character, excluding the surrogate blocks, 
> FFFE, and FFFF. */
> 
> """
> 
> So 𐠀 is not WF XML.  I'm not sure why JJC uses it.

So I was wrong and 𐠀 is indeed WF, and the problem remains that XML 
processing code will have to augment Python built-ins such as len with 
intelligence about surrogates  :-(


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