• From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w...>
• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
• Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:19:16 +0100

On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 18:04 +0000, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
[...]
> One approach is to move any illegal characters into the Private Use Area: 
Another is to use an escaping mechanism - e.g. what I call "UCODE", in
which an upper-case "U" is followed by hexadecimal and a trailing X to
mark the end; this can safely be used in XML element names for example.

Liam

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