[Chandler-dev] Re: [Cosmo-dev] dealing with characters that XML 1.0 doesn't allow

Morgen Sagen morgen at osafoundation.org
Wed May 30 10:43:06 PDT 2007


On May 30, 2007, at 8:27 AM, Grant Baillie wrote:

> On 29 May, 2007, at 13:43, Randy Letness wrote:
>
>> Brian Moseley wrote:
>>> and what's the use case for NULs and control characters in item data
>>> anyway? i say we just strip them.
>>
>> +1
>
> The only use case we know of is form feed (a.k.a. ^L or NP). I've  
> seen that in user-generated text (i.e. emails/calendar data), but I  
> guess it can be ditched.
>
> Looking over the remaining Unicode control characters (U+0000 - U 
> +001F, U+007F - U+009F), I don't see anything that should end up in  
> text.
>
> --Grant

Ok, I'll strip them.


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