- From: Christopher R. Maden <crism@exemplary.net>
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 01:07:30 -0800
- To: "IETF/W3C XML-DSig WG" <w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org>, w3c-xsl-wg@w3.org
[Martin Dürst] >At 00/03/17 12:47 -0800, John Boyer wrote: >iii) If everything else checks out, we can get rid of exact order and just >>use lex order provided that lex ordering in UTF-16 results in the same order >>as lex ordering in UTF-8 (which is Christopher Maden's claim). > >This is not true. Surrogate pairs are the counterexample. >And of course it is not true for any other character encoding, >except in a very limited sense for iso-8859-1 and us-ascii. I was referring to ordering on characters, not bytes. It should be obvious that bytewise sorting on a two-byte and a variable-byte encoding will be different. -Chris -- Christopher R. Maden, Solutions Architect Yomu (formerly Exemplary Technologies) One Embarcadero Center, Ste. 2405 San Francisco, CA 94111
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