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[whatwg] Valid Unicode

From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:58:28 +0300
Message-ID: <57E722A0-5C57-4A61-8E60-29A76B2B4A9F@iki.fi>
On Apr 22, 2008, at 14:18, Ian Hickson wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Elliotte Harold wrote:
>> 2. Are control characters allowed (probably yes, based on other  
>> parts of
>> the spec).
>
> No as raw characters. Control characters that aren't in U+80-U+9F are
> allowed as entities.
...
>> 6. Are noncharacters U+FDD0..U+FDEF allowed (?)
>> 7. Are the noncharacters from the last two characters of each plane
>> allowed (?)
>
> Not as raw charactes but, for now, as entities yes.


Why the distinction between raw characters and entities? Won't that  
just complicate things--serializers in particular?

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