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Re: Just a Little Explanaton for Veering (RE: Blueberry/Unicode/ XML)
- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- To: Don Park <donpark@docuverse.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 23:50:33 -0400 (EDT)
Don Park scripsit:
> They have tinkered with Chinese-enabled Forth and
> other languages, but they have accepted limitations of C, Java, and Perl
> without any significant complaint.
Java has approximately the same identifier rules as XML.
C99 allows any character north of ~ in identifiers.
Perl 5.6 AFAIK is still ASCII-only.
> Why is it such an issue in XML names?
Markup != programming.
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
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