Re: CLDR and ICU

On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 22:52:54 -0700
"Steven R. Loomis" <srl_at_icu-project.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Richard Wordingham <
> richard.wordingham_at_ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:01:53 -0700
> > "Steven R. Loomis" <srl_at_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.
Received on Fri Jul 27 2012 - 02:20:20 CDT