Re: [xml-dev] US-ASCII characters versus XML characters ... why such a huge discrepancy?

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David Carlisle <>
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"Costello, Roger L." <>
Date
2012-10-01T14:28:08Z
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Re: [xml-dev] US-ASCII characters versus XML characters ... why such a huge discrepancy?
On 01/10/2012 14:59, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> 1. Why does XML not support many of the US-ASCII characters?

Because it's a textual format and code points like
U+0017 END OF TRANSMISSION BLOCK
don't really belong in text.


David



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