[whatwg] Valid Unicode

[Ian Hickson]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Henri Sivonen wrote:
> On Apr 22, 2008, at 14:18, Ian Hickson wrote:
> > On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Elliotte Harold wrote:
> > > 2. Are control characters allowed (probably yes, based on other parts of
> > > the spec).
> > 
> > No as raw characters. Control characters that aren't in U+80-U+9F are
> > allowed as entities.
> ...
> > > 6. Are noncharacters U+FDD0..U+FDEF allowed (?)
> > > 7. Are the noncharacters from the last two characters of each plane
> > > allowed (?)
> > 
> > Not as raw charactes but, for now, as entities yes.
> 
> Why the distinction between raw characters and entities? Won't that just 
> complicate things--serializers in particular?

This has now been fixed.

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