• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• To: Greg Hunt <greg@f...>
• Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:27:19 +0000

On 18/03/2010 22:55, Greg Hunt wrote:
> Is a substitution character (x'1a' in many single byte character sets or
> 65533 in UTF-8) a legal character?

they are different characters

unicode U+001A isn't allowed in XML 1.0 (the only C0 control codes 
allowed are 9 10 13 32  ie white space.

U+FFFD (REPLACEMENT CHARACTER, code point 65533) is allowed in XML.


David

• References:
  • Is it a well-formedness error to use a character not in theencoding specified by the XML declaration?
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
  • Re: Is it a well-formedness error to use a character not in theencoding specified by the XML declaration?
    • From: Michael Glavassevich <mrglavas@c...>
  • RE: Is it a well-formedness error to use a character not in the encoding specified by the XML declaration?
    • From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
  • Re: Is it a well-formedness error to use a character not in the encoding specified by the XML declaration?
    • From: Greg Hunt <greg@f...>