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- From: MURATA Makoto <murata.makoto@fujixerox.co.jp>
- To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 23:22:26 +0900
John Cowan writes:
>This is version 0.1 of a proposed technical corrigendum to XML 1.0
>to incorporate the new characters of Unicode 3.0 into the allowable
>sets used in XML Names. It presumes that XML should not
>remain limited to an obsolete version of the Unicode and ISO 10646
>standards.
I love the idea. This is certainly a great improvement.
I have one question. Is U+30FB (Katakana Middle Dot) a name character
in Unicode 3.0? I had a look at the WWW site of the Unicode Consortium,
but I could not find any information about it.
Omission of this character in Unicode (and thus XML) is very serious. This
character is so common. It is a very bad error of Unicode nameing rule.
In a meeting of Japanese Standardization Association, I was asked why this
character is not allowed as a name character in XML. Some users asked the
same question in an XML mailing list in Japan. This character is needed
very very badly.
I have spoken with some members of UTC and repeatedly asked them to make this
change. But I am still not sure if Unicode 3.0 allows this character as a
name character.
The second version of ISO TR 10176:1998 (Guideline for preparation of programming
language) also has a rule for name characters. This rule allows U+30FB as a
name character.
In the property list of Unicode, U+30FB is classified as hyphens.
Property dump for: 0x20000800 (Hyphen)
002D
00AD
058A
1806
2010..2011 (2 chars)
30FB
FE63
FF0D
FF65
If we cannot handle U+30FB as an exception, we can allow all these characters
except FE63, FF0D, FF65.
Makoto
Fuji Xerox Information Systems
Tel: +81-44-812-7230 Fax: +81-44-812-7231
E-mail: murata.makoto@fujixerox.co.jp
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