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Julian Reschke wrote: > Michael Champion wrote: > > > OK, I'll bite and expose my lack of attention to the details -- why are > > smart quotes illegal in XML? (Or is it that the encoding is > > They aren't. > > > mis-specified?) Was this proposed to be fixed in XML 1.1? Does anyone > > It was mis-specified (actually it wasn't specified at all, and as it > wasn't UTF-8 it should have been). > > > outside the RSS/Atom world complain about this? > > Any XML parser MUST reject it, otherwise it doesn't deserve the name. True, but the aggregator as a whole might still accept it -- possibly by noticing that the encoding is mislabelled and munging the data into proper UTF-8 before passing it to the parser. In fact any aggregator that doesn't do something like this is doomed to fail -- *nobody's* feed has the encoding labelled properly. (Well, maybe not "nobody", but certainly not very many.) --Joe English jenglish@f...
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