XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

At 9:52 AM -0800 1/20/04, Markus Scherer wrote:
> You need not invent something new: Just use a simplified SCSU 
> encoder, and either a regular SCSU decoder or one that only supports 
> the features which your custom encoder uses.

Thanks. It looks like exactly what I need.

> For a tiny SCSU encoder (main function 75 lines of commented C) that 
> also compresses a little better than what you describe see 
> http://www.mindspring.com/~markus.scherer/unicode/tr6/
>
> You could scale that encoder up or down to your liking.
>
> For a full SCSU converter you could use ICU, for example. 
> http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/

Hmm, I'm already carrying around part of ICU4J to perform 
normalization. I'll have to check and see if I've got the SCSU 
support compiled into my version of the ICU jar.

> You could also use BOCU-1.

Reading the BOCU tech note, it looks like SCSU performs better, The 
main benefit of BOCU is if you're transmitting this encoding on the 
wire, which I am definitely not doing. But SCSU looks like a really 
nice option. Thanks.

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  Elliotte Rusty Harold
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