[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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