• To: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@a...>
• Subject: Re: Some comments on the 1.1 draft
• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 06:10:28 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <026501c1887b$739f9e00$4bc8a8c0@A...> from Rick Jelliffeat "Dec 19, 2001 09:53:54 pm"

Rick Jelliffe scripsit:

> If you send a document
>   <p>The original quote was AU$20,000. Please send
>     me E15,000</p>
> where the E was the Euro character, I do not think
> you would be happy if the delivering system merely
> stripped out the Euro character (e.g. if the document
> was written using x80 as the Euro character but
> mislabelled ISO 8859-1 or ISO 8859-15.)  

In that case, a conformant XML 1.0 processor would return a U+0080 character
to the application, which would have to cope as well as it could.

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