On 11 Dec 2003, at 19:51, Gus Mueller wrote:
John Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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At one point in time the XML-RPC spec limited the Unicode characters in
strings to be ASCII. The Apache XML-RPC actually limited them to be ISO
8859/1. Some time ago that restriction was lifted but the XML-RPC code
has not been updated to reflect this.
Would it be out of the question to create a method like
setUseAllUnicode(boolean) or something similar, that would flag
XMLWriter not to throw an exception on chars above 0xff? Or maybe if it
saw that the encoding was set to utf-8, it wouldn't throw an exception?
I think that the best solution is to completely remove the restriction that XMLWriter will not write characters with values > 0XFF. If we support ISO 8859/1, UTF-8 and UTF-18 them we only have to use the numeric character encodings when we are using ISO 8859/1.
It's a common misapprehension with XML that the encoding restricts the characters that can be used. XML documents in *any* encoding can contain *all* of the Unicode characters allowed by the XML spec.
John Wilson The Wilson Partnership http://www.wilson.co.uk
