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

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John Cowan <>
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Richard Tobin <>
Date
2001-12-21T17:46:16Z
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Re: [xml-dev] Why would MS want to make XML break on UNIX, Perl, Python, etc ?
Richard Tobin wrote:

> How does more on these systems behave with Latin-1, UTF-8 and UTF-16
> files, all of which are already legal?


"More" assumes that its output is a terminal, so it refuses

to send strange C0 and C1 characters to it, for fear of making
the output unreadable.  Whether "more" is encoding-sensitive,
or just assumes ASCII+, depends on the OS flavor.

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