[XML-SIG] Re: Issues with Unicode type

Lars Marius Garshol larsga@garshol.priv.no
25 Sep 2002 17:20:55 +0200


* Martin v. Loewis
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| Of course, producing such a literal is an application error.

* Fred L. Drake, Jr.
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| That depends on whether you think a Unicode literal is supposed to
| contain a sequence of characters or a sequence of code units.  I
| suspect this is entirely application-dependent.  I can see where it
| could come in handy when writing test cases, so it may be
| appropriate at other times as well.

I think probably it would be best to disallow such literals. Those
doing test cases should find other ways to do them.

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