RE: ORA-XQ-059-B: XQuery expressions do not need to be written in Unicode from Michael Kay on 2004-02-16 (public-qt-comments@w3.org from February 2004)

From: Michael Kay <mhk@mhk.me.uk>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 21:02:11 -0000
To: "'Stephen Buxton'" <Stephen.Buxton@oracle.com>, <public-qt-comments@w3.org>
Message-ID: <002201c3f4d0$25e9cc80$6401a8c0@pcukmka>

> For example, if a user is working in 
> an environment with EBCDIC or Shift-JIS editors, the user 
> will probably want to compose his XQuery expressions in those 
> character sets.
> 

I think you are confusing character set with encoding. We haven't said
anything about how XQuery or XPath expressions are encoded (and there
have been I18N comments that we should); but however they are encoded,
every character in the query/expression is a Unicode character.

Michael Kay

Received on Monday, 16 February 2004 16:01:30 UTC