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Author	Behdad.Esfahbod
Recipients	Behdad.Esfahbod, MLModel, loewis, ronaldoussoren
Date	2015年04月23日.18:33:14
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> Replacing all control characters by entities before trying to parse the Plist XML would likely be the best way forward. That wouldn't work. Control characters are disallowed in XML's character set, so they are invalid even if input as entities. Unfortunately this causes a lot of trouble for clients [0], because it means that XML cannot represent the full Unicode repertoire. I'm curious about alternates. Perhaps the expat module can be extended to allow recovering from this if the client chooses to... [0] eg. https://github.com/behdad/fonttools/issues/249

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> Replacing all control characters by entities before trying to parse the Plist XML would likely be the best way forward. 
That wouldn't work. Control characters are disallowed in XML's character set, so they are invalid even if input as entities.
Unfortunately this causes a lot of trouble for clients [0], because it means that XML cannot represent the full Unicode repertoire. I'm curious about alternates. Perhaps the expat module can be extended to allow recovering from this if the client chooses to...
[0] eg. https://github.com/behdad/fonttools/issues/249

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Date	User	Action	Args
2015年04月23日 18:33:14	Behdad.Esfahbod	set	recipients: + Behdad.Esfahbod, loewis, ronaldoussoren, MLModel
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2015年04月23日 18:33:14	Behdad.Esfahbod	create

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