Interesting article: UTF-8+names

from Tim Bray

[lorax]

An interesting read for XML lovers and learners. Tim is author/owner of the weblog ongoing. He's an XML nut through and through. I thought this might provide some insight as to the depth of some of the issues being dealt with in the XML world - and it's informative too.

Here’s the problem. You want to put “funny” characters in your XML, ones that aren’t on your keyboard... XML has a bunch of ways to do this; some of them require sophisticated software, others are really ugly, and if you want to avoid both the ugliness and the fancy software, you can use a DTD. Except for people don’t want to use DTDs either. This set of issues has been darkening the XML skies for years now, but we may have stumbled on a way out of the box. (Warning: Bit-banging technicalia of interest only to XML obsessives).

Read it here [tbray.org]