Re: [xml-dev] Why would MS want to make XML break on UNIX, Perl, Python, etc ?

On Friday 21 December 2001 08:35 am, Richard Tobin wrote:
> In article <> you 
write:
> >This is still not a reason to allow control codes. You know, as well as I
> > do, that they *will* cause problems.
>
> I cannot see why they would cause any problems that UTF-16 doesn't.

Sure, but then you talk about NUL being bad. UTF-16 includes a lot of zero 
bytes (as you know) so the point is moot.

Even in US-ASCII, these things are going to be an issue.