Re: numeric character references and Unicode surrogate pairs: part of my review of 8 The HTML syntax from Cameron McCormack on 2007-08-20 (public-html@w3.org from August 2007)

From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:14:07 +1000
To: public-html WG <public-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <20070820131407.GA14640@arc.mcc.id.au>

Robert Burns:
> >I believe this is not consistent with existing browser behavior. That is  
> >that while surrogate pairs, expressed as pairs of numeric character  
> >references, are not supposed to resolve to the non-BMP character,  
> >browsers do it anyway.

Anne van Kesteren:
> Do you have any tests to demonstrate that?

Here’s one:

  data:text/html,%26%23xD800%3B%26%23xDC00%3B

Shows as a single U+10000 character in Firefox 2.0.0.5 and Opera 9.23,
at least.

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Received on Monday, 20 August 2007 13:14:17 UTC