Re: Windows and Mac character encoding questions

Quoting Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>:

> 
> On Tuesday, April 6, 2004, 11:23:43 AM, Frank wrote:
> 
> FE> Mark Davis wrote:
> 
>  >> In practice, however, the bytes 0x80..0x9F in iso-8859-1 are
>  >> so rarely used
> 
> FE> ...they're even illegal in XML 1.0, aren't they ?  Therefore...
> 
> The characters at those positions in the UCS are illegal. Bytes with
> those values in a given encoding are not illegal.

Same thing for that particular encoding.

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