String character range

[Mark Taylor]

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Doug Tody wrote:

> whatever to be transmitted as text.  In any case you may still need
> to process character data further for an XML (or other) transport,
> even if character data is in the range allowable for strings.

if you mean escaping markup (in XML using CDATA sections or entity 
references, or similar for other transports) - sure.  And as you say, 
that is the sort of thing which will ought normally to be handled 
by library code at some level, and does not require specific 
discussion in the standard.

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Mark Taylor   Astronomical Programmer   Physics, Bristol University, UK
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