[XML-SIG] Re: Issues with Unicode type

[Eric van der Vlist]

On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 11:41, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Eric van der Vlist wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 22:39, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
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> >>I book all this under FUD. It'll take a bit of time, but we'll
> >>eventually move there. For now, I think the issues around
> >>surrogates and the need for non-BMP code points in real life
> >>applications are a bit overhyped.
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> > I think that it depends what we call real life and more precisely if yo=
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> > consider that the full conformance to standards and W3C recommendations
> > is part of the real life or not.
>  >
> > Having never met the need before, I can't consider non BMP code points
> > as an absolute requirement by themselves.
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> See, that's what I meant :-) We'll get there in time; until then,
> I'd suggest to use UCS4 builds to write standards implementations.

That would seem reasonable, except that regexp doesn't seem to be usable
yet on these platforms and that, I have more failures when I run the
Relax NG test suite on these platforms than on UCS2 builds :-( !

I would be quite happy to say: if you want to be 100% compliant, use a
UCS4 build, but it looks like the impact of unicode has been too
invasive (to quote Fred) and that it's not ready yet either...
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>  > ...
> > Again, we can say that it won't matter for "real life applications" and
> > that we don't care about conformance but that's a dangerous path.
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> I never suggested that; only to give it some time... heck, Java
> isn't even near being standards conform and neither is Windows.
> Both were built on top of Unicode 2.x at a time when people thought
> that 65k chars would be more than enough for all time (hmm, I remember
> I thought the same a few years back when I bought a 2GB fixed disk ;-).

Sure!

Thanks

Eric

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