Re: 12. Are C1 controls and Unicode non-characters disallowed?

On 9/8/2012 11:31 AM, James Clark wrote:
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> On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Mike Sokolov <sokolov@falutin.net 
> <mailto:sokolov@falutin.net>> wrote:
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>     On 9/8/2012 1:14 AM, James Clark wrote:
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>         I find the case for excluding non-characters pretty
>         compelling. I would state it like this:
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>     Just for the sake of completeness, would you mind explaining
>     what's compelling about it?
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> A design that disallows #xFFFE and #xFFFF but allows all other 
> non-characters can be justified only by appealing to history.  As I 
> mentioned earlier, I want to avoid that as much as possible.
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>      a) I want to minimize the things in MicroXML that make sense only if
>     you know the historical context of MicroXML. If somebody who knows
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Thanks, makes sense now.  History, of course to some extent is 
inescapable, but at least there is some logic in disallowing 
non-character codepoints that is (mostly :)) independent of it.

Mike