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Re: Why would MS want to make XML break on UNIX, Perl, Python

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• Subject: Re: Why would MS want to make XML break on UNIX, Perl, Python, etc ?
• From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>
• Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 12:25:53 -0500
• In-reply-to: <200112211335.NAA04372@m...>
• Organization: Red Bridge Interactive, Inc.
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On Friday 21 December 2001 08:35 am, Richard Tobin wrote:
> In article <E16HFW6-0005JX-00@s...> you 
write:
> >This is still not a reason to allow control codes. You know, as well as I
> > do, that they *will* cause problems.
>
> I cannot see why they would cause any problems that UTF-16 doesn't.

Sure, but then you talk about NUL being bad. UTF-16 includes a lot of zero 
bytes (as you know) so the point is moot.

Even in US-ASCII, these things are going to be an issue.

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