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Re: Some comments on the 1.1 draft

• To: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@a...>
• Subject: Re: Some comments on the 1.1 draft
• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 05:43:55 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <023101c18873$6ec9a590$4bc8a8c0@A...> from Rick Jelliffeat "Dec 19, 2001 08:56:30 pm"

Rick Jelliffe scripsit:

> Even if you only use ISO 8859-1, it is still important. The Euro=0x80
> mistake will be increasingly common, and we need to make sure that
> XML processors continue to catch this error.

But they don't!

Characters U+0080 through U+009F are legal XML content.

You are talking about a "defense" that doesn't even exist.

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