But a technical report released by the Unicode Consortium--and simultaneously published as a note by the W3C's internationalization activity--warns document authors that some Unicode features are ...

But the XML framework introduces a more complex character set routine, Unicode, to facilitate more complex data typing. Unicode uses 16-bit character sets instead of ASCII’s eight bits.

With XML and HTML, a more challenging game is possible, namely, “diagnose the problems with ampersand characters”. Note that this game is about diagnosis not detection.

Here's the story. I've been tasked with creating a network application client. My inclination would be to use Perl, but I thought this would be an interesting experiment to see how well Java would ...

With HTML or XML, by contrast, the author would use the basic character and then style it as superscript or subscript. All things being equal, the W3C advises authors to use the markup alternatives.