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Re: Gag me with a blunt …
- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- To: Jesús Quiroga <jquiroga@pobox.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 18:00:23 -0500 (EST)
Jesús Quiroga scripsit:
> This is not an error in the XML 1.0 spec, IMHO. Apparently, U+0085 was
> assigned in Unicode 3.0, and XML 1.0 is based on Unicode 2.0.
U+0085 has been around since Unicode 1.0, and its assignment to NEW LINE
is from ISO 6429, which dates back to 1983 or so.
> XML 1.0 could not possibly comply in 1998 with a standard published in 2000.
XML 1.0 chose not to implement non-ASCII whitespace characters from Unicode 2.0.
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