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Re: Dumb question about XML chars vs. Unicode

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• Subject: Re: Dumb question about XML chars vs. Unicode
• From: Richard Tobin <richard@c...>
• Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 14:43:08 GMT
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• In-reply-to: <20030123052136.GD2843@swordfish>
• Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh

>I can't find any suggestion that those
>control characters are somehow not characters

Well, you could deduce it from these two sentences (from Unicode 2.0,
which was current when the XML spec was first written; I haven't
checked the current version):

  "Characters have well-defined semantics" (section 2.2)

  "The only C0 control code that has specified semantics in the Unicode
   Standard is U+0009 HORIZONTAL TAB" (section 6.1)

And there seems to be a bias towards referring to "control codes"
rather than "control characters".

So I think someone reading Unicode 2.0 could well have inferred that
they weren't really characters.

But it might as well be fixed anyway.

-- Richard

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  • Dumb question about XML chars vs. Unicode
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