Scientific Symbols Such as Degree and Squared in XML

[Ayron]

Is it possible to have scientific symbols (e.g. degree, squared, cubed,
etc.) in XML docs if the UTF-8 encoding is specified? Is there a
limitation?

Thanks.

-ak

[Andreas Prilop]

On 9 Nov 2005, Ayron wrote:

Is it possible to have scientific symbols (e.g. degree, squared, cubed,
etc.) in XML docs if the UTF-8 encoding is specified?
Yes.
Is there a limitation?

Symbols of profanity are not allowed in the United States.

--
Netscape 3.04 does everything I need, and it's utterly reliable.
Why should I switch? Peter T. Daniels in <news:sci.lan g>

[Peter Flynn]

Andreas Prilop wrote:

On 9 Nov 2005, Ayron wrote:

Is it possible to have scientific symbols (e.g. degree, squared,
cubed, etc.) in XML docs if the UTF-8 encoding is specified?

Yes.

Is there a limitation?

Symbols of profanity are not allowed in the United States.

When did they get added to Unicode? :-)

///Peter

[Alan J. Flavell]

On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Peter Flynn wrote:

Andreas Prilop wrote:

Symbols of profanity are not allowed in the United States.

When did they get added to Unicode? :-)

✌

SCNR.

[Jukka K. Korpela]

"Ayron" <ak******@lrs.c om> wrote:

Is it possible to have scientific symbols (e.g. degree, squared, cubed,
etc.) in XML docs if the UTF-8 encoding is specified?

Certainly. UTF-8 is capable of representing all characters defined in Unicode
(and, actually, more - you could use Private Use codepoints for your own
characters, though you most probably don't need that).

In addition, you can use character references, irrespectively of the
encoding. Such as ° or (equivalently) &#b0; for the degree sign.
You don't normally need them, if you can use a UTF-8 capable editor or
another program that can generate UTF-8 encoded XML documents for you.

--
Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

[Johannes Koch]

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

In addition, you can use character references, irrespectively of the
encoding. Such as ° or (equivalently) &#b0; for the degree sign.

The hex number must be prefixed by 'x': &#xb0;
--
Johannes Koch
Spem in alium nunquam habui praeter in te, Deus Israel.
(Thomas Tallis, 40-part motet)