XML will make it easier than ever before for Web builders to create truly international sites because, like Java, it's defined in Unicode (ISO 10646), an internationally accepted standard for depicting virtually all of the world's letters, glyphs, characters, and ideograms. Unicode includes the ASCII ISO Latin characters, as well as Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Hindi, Greek, and Arabic, among others. It even permits the mixing of character sets--for example, an XML document displayed in Japanese kanji could reference a German word with an umlaut.
Developers don't have to learn any special script for Unicode to be in effect in XML documents, which will be displayed in users' browsers using the appropriate character set.
