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Interesting.
Unicode code point FFFD: REPLACEMENT CHARACTER: used to replace an incoming
character whose value is unknown or unrepresentable in Unicode.
Not ill-formed, but not meaningful, either.
Amy!
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 12:12:58PM -0400, Long, Craig Z wrote:
>Thanks Tim,
>
>Here is the hex for <BirthCity>K?/BirthCity>:
>
>3C 42 69 72 74 68 43 69 74 79 3E 4B EF BF BD 2F 42 69 72 74 68 43 69 74 79
>3E
>
>EF BF BD are the questionable characters which replaced 3C.
>
>Craig
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@textuality.com]
>Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 11:16 AM
>To: Long, Craig Z
>Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
>Subject: Re: [xml-dev] UTF-8 use with XML
>
>
>Long, Craig Z wrote:
>> Given the following element using a utf character (created by a user's
>> system): <BirthCity>Trenton?/BirthCity> I've been told my system should be
>> programmed to accept this. I can't find any documentation which supports
>> yes or no to this premise. Currently we reject this as not well-formed
>XML.
>> Please offer expertise concerning this issue.
>
>If it really contains a UTF8 character, no programming should be
>required, all conforming XMl software is required to accept UTF data.
>Things that could be wrong:
>
>- there's an encoding declaration at the front of the file saying it's
> something other than UTF-8
>- you think it's UTF-8 but it isn't.
>
>If there's no encoding declaration, then the second is almost certainly
>true. If you provide a hex dump of the affected region there are
>several people here who could look at it and tell you whether it's
>really UTF-8
>
>--
>Cheers, Tim Bray
> (ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)
>
>
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