On Tuesday, February 19, 2002, at 04:35 AM, Kimbro Staken wrote:
SOAP should have the same issue, as should any solution that is used from non-unicode languages. I'm sure the CORBA impls for something like PHP would have the same problem (I'm assuming PHP still doesn't support unicode but I really don't know). The question, is it safe within the scope of unicode languages?
I just took a look at the spec, (my connection was down before) it explicitly defines a string as an ASCII string. So your concern is probably legitimate. It also says "A string can be used to encode binary data.", which implies to me it's saying to treat it like an array of bytes.
If that's true then we may be OK. It's rather ambiguous though. There's base64 too, of course.
Kimbro Staken XML Database Software, Consulting and Writing http://www.xmldatabases.org/
