Re: New work item for XML group ? (Re: Comments on 31 March spec)

• From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@eps.inso.com>
• Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 08:46:34 -0400
• To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
• Message-Id: <199704141246.IAA03383@nathaniel.ebt>

>In the interests of interoperability, I think ERB needs to 
>standardise on a character width for XML 1.0; at the <b>current state of
>the art</b>, this should be 16-bits.  Java, for example, only uses
>16-bit characters currently, and implemtation of C's wchar_t store it as
>16-bit. Maybe software people should say whether in fact this is a valid 
>reason. 

Some Unix systems define wchar_t to be 32 bits.

Received on Monday, 14 April 1997 08:47:59 UTC