[XML-SIG] DC DOM tests (Was: Roadmap document - finally!)

Uche Ogbuji uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com
Tue, 20 Feb 2001 07:07:25 -0700


> | - DOMString and text manipulating interface methods are not tested beyond
> |   ASCII text due to an implementation limitation of ParsedXML.DOM. So,
> |   implementations will not be tested if text is correctly treated when
> |   multi-byte UTF-16 characters are involved.
> 
> By "multi-byte UTF-16 characters" I assume you mean Unicode characters
> outside the BMP that are represented using two surrogates?

I wonder if that's what Martijn means.  I've read that most Java 
implementations have trouble with characters outside the BMP.  I wonder if 
Python handles these properly.


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