On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 22:52:54 -0700 "Steven R. Loomis" <s...@icu-project.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Richard Wordingham < > richard.wording...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:01:53 -0700 > > "Steven R. Loomis" <s...@icu-project.org> wrote: > I suspect it was simply an oversight and not indicative of any > systemic issue. UTS#35 gives the example of <cp hex="0"> for > representing NULL as an example of a character not to be used in XML. > Note that there's nothing wrong with processing non-characters in > memory- I have to deal with non-characters all the time. Thanks for > filing the bug. NULL and the two noncharacters U+FFFE and U+FFFF are banned from XML; the other noncharacters are allowed. It's the Unicode Standard that bans them from *open interchange*. Richard.