Non-character NCRs treated differently from literal non-characters from Henri Sivonen on 2009-05-18 (public-html@w3.org from May 2009)

From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 16:33:50 +0300
To: "public-html@w3.org WG" <public-html@w3.org>
Message-Id: <F1BDE120-C3DE-4BF3-B8C1-CCE08489DE87@iki.fi>

Literal non-characters don't turn into REPLACEMENT CHARACTER,  
presumably for perf reasons. But why, then, do non-character NCRs turn  
into REPLACEMENT CHARACTER?

(This made a reftest fail: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/layout/reftests/bugs/376532-1.html 
  )

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Henri Sivonen
hsivonen@iki.fi
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/

Received on Monday, 18 May 2009 13:34:37 UTC