Re: Comments on XML Part 1 from Japanese experts

Gavin Nicol writes:
>I disagree. I have seen *many* Japanese people become *very* confused
>when they include (accidently or not) an ideographics space character
>into their DTD or whatever, and have a parser fail. 

This is an error message issue.  To be friendly to Japanese users, 
XML parsers should say "Ideographic space characters (zenkaku space)
are not allowed here.  Use space characters (hankaku space)."

Makoto
 
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Received on Monday, 2 June 1997 01:11:24 UTC