Re: [M-dev] XML Parser Problem--High ASCII

[Loren P. <pe...@ne...>]

On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Aaron Davies wrote:

> I've discovered while messing around with the strings that the XML
> parser in A1 chokes on certain high-ASCII characters, particularly "*"
> (opt-d). As far as I can tell from the W3C's definition of XML, any
> character in unicode is legal for XML.

	That may be some kind of problem with "expat", the XML parser that
I use. I had set it to run in single-byte mode, because I want to read off
of ASCII files, and Unicode runs in double-byte mode. However, there is a
modification of Unicode called UTF-8 that represents standard low-half
ASCII with 8 bytes. But I don't really know much about UTF-8 or the
canonical translations of MacOS high-half character values in UTF-8. It 
would most likely be done with 2-byte values.

	Maybe we can find some Unicode expert somewhere to help us out...


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