- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 03:20:20 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, ?istein E. Andersen wrote: > On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:21:20 +0000 (UTC), Ian Hickson wrote: > > > (I've made the characters not allowed in XML also not allowed in HTML, > > with the exception of some of the space characters which we need to > > have allowed for legacy reasons.) > > The C1 character U+0085 NEXT LINE (NEL) is also a Unicode space > character, and this one is neither disallowed nor discouraged in XML as > far as I can tell. I am not sure if we really want to support this > character, though; Opera, Safari and Firefox do not seem to recognise it > at all, and one IE7 installation seems to treat it as a non-breakable > wide space, but this may well be font-dependent. (Allowing this > character could be confusing given that … does not refer to U+0085, > but rather to an ellipsis for compatibility with Windows-1252.) I consciously excluded it. > More importantly, the current draft seems to allow C0 (not only white > space) controls and delete, as well as U+FDD0 to U+FDDF and the > non-characters *FE and *FF when these are expressed as character > references. Would it be possible to (dis)allow the same set of > characters in both cases? Yeah, this was fixed yesterday. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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