RE: Allowed characters for NCName

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From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
To: "'Rick Jelliffe'" <rjelliffe@a...>,"'Desmond Kirrane'" <desmond.kirrane@g...>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:35:19 -0000

> When looking at character encoding, the golden rule is USE A HEX EDITOR.

No, I wouldn't trust most hex editors. They typically try to load the file as text and then convert the text into hex. By then undecodable characters have probably been mangled. You want to see what the bits were on the disk.

Michael Kay

http://www.saxonica.com/

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