> (An optimistic view of ISO10646: there are dozens of new Han ideographs
> created every day, apart from other scripts.)
True but irrelevant, since no specifiable character set can hold these.
> I hope that the schema people will look at
> a solution for constraining strings to use certain repertoires of
> characters.
And I hope that they allow no such thing, except perhaps as a fall-out
from some regex or other local syntax mechanism.
-- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)