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Actually, you dropped all the text I wrote ... :) I think
that what you've sent is in agreement with what I wrote.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gavin Thomas Nicol" <gtn@rbii.com>
To: <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] ANN: Gorille 0.3
> On Saturday 12 January 2002 04:12 pm, David Brownell wrote:
> > > >And also, do surrogate pairs really introduce any issues that
> > > >are not already present in combining character sequences?
> > >
> > > Yes, I think they do. In particular for this thread, XML 1.0 names
> > > (and probably XML 1.1 names) can be checked for well-formedness
> > > and validity without worrying about combining characters.
>
> This is more an issue with processing UTF-16. If you always work at
> the scalar for validation the issue goes away. This is obvious, but
> it's important to blur the character vs. encoding issue.
>
> As characters, surrogate pairs have fewer issues than combining
> sequences for display (or certainly no extra issues).
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