• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
• Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:28:08 +0100

On 01/10/2012 14:59, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> 1. Why does XML not support many of the US-ASCII characters?

Because it's a textual format and code points like
U+0017 END OF TRANSMISSION BLOCK
don't really belong in text.


David



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