RE: [xml-dev] [Summary] UTF-8 Question: e with acute accent should require two bytes, right?

• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@...>
• To: "'Alessandro Triglia'" <sandro@...>,"'Richard Tobin'" <richard@...>,<xml-dev@...>
• Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:43:57 +0100

>It would be a funny statement to say that a certain sentence contains a mix
of ASCII and non-ASCII characters.

The only thing I can see wrong with the sentence is that it's trivially
true. Like saying that a sentence contains a mix of 5-letter and
non-5-letter words. Except that they probably meant to say that neither of
the partitions is empty, which makes it non-trivial.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/