Re: [xml-dev] XML and mainframes, yet again

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John Cowan <>
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David Brownell <>
Date
2001-12-17T02:45:55Z
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Re: [xml-dev] XML and mainframes, yet again
David Brownell scripsit:

> It's good to remember that one reason they're a problem is that they
> have become a storehouse for vendor-proprietary characters, with
> as many different meanings as most C0 ones (U+0000..U+001F).
> Blessing one vendor's solution may magnify the problems.

Again, not really.  The *bytes* 80 through 9F encode many different
characters, including #x80 through #x9F.  There is really only one
set of uses in practice for the characters #x80 through #x9F.

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