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

From: Philip Taylor <philip@zaynar.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:25:15 +0100
To: public-html WG <public-html@w3.org>
Message-ID: <46C9C06B.5030402@zaynar.demon.co.uk>

Philip Taylor wrote:
>>   data:text/html,%26%23xD800%3B%26%23xDC00%3B
> 
> I also get a single character rendered in FF2, Opera 9.2, IE6, IE7 and 
> Safari 3 (Windows). I get two rendered U+FFFD characters in FF3 (build 
> 2007081904).

Looks like the FF3 change was intentional, to fix the "Possible to 
introduce bogus UTF-16 into Gecko" issue: 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316394

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Philip Taylor
philip@zaynar.demon.co.uk

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