> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Kearney [mailto:]
> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 16:42
> To: Alessandro Triglia; ;
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] [Summary] UTF-8 Question: e with acute
> accent should require two bytes, right?
>
> Alessandro Triglia wrote:
> > The whole discussion is about Unicode and ASCII! It
> started with the
> > following sentence in Roger's document: "Here is a simple
> XML document.
> > Most of its characters are ASCII, but there is one non-ASCII
> > character, the é character"
>
> No, it's not about ASCII. If it were then the accented
> character would never have come up, as it CANNOT BE
> REPRESENTED IN ASCII. Not at all.
>
> I haven't minutely examined the entire thread of messages,
> but I believe it was YOU, not the original post made by Roger
> that brought up this whole ASCII nonsense.
You are completely wrong. Roger posted a reference to a document in which
**he** mentioned ASCII. I replied to **that** posting and objected to the
use of the phrase "ASCII character".
Alessandro
