[XML-SIG] Processing xml files with ISO 8859-1 chars

[Morus Walter]

Dan Gunter writes:
> The simple answer is that the XML parser is illiterate. Since there a=
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> no bit patterns that are illegal in UTF-8, I don't see how the parser=
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> perspective, garbage. The pretty-printer, on the other hand, knows th=
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> difference between printable and non-printable characters and can thu=
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> complain.
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Sorry. This is wrong.
There are a lot of byte combinations that can never occur
in UTF-8. E.g. there can never be a single 8-bit character between 7-bi=
t
characters ([\x20-\x7F][\x80-\xFF][\x20-\x7F]).
So the parser could check, whether the byte stream forms valid utf-8.

greetings
=09Morus

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