Well, that's an eye-opener! I must apologize for my parochial, English-language, Latin alphabet, ASCII viewpoint. I hadn't considered the difficulty of producing a list of prohibited characters in a world where many, many alphabets are in use, not to mention those languages written in scripts where there are a mixture of syllabic and phonemic symbols. Just thinking of producing a list for languages written in ideographic scripts is starting to give me a headache.

So let me re-phrase. Where can I find a list of prohibited English-language script characters?
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Charles Knell
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From:     Martin Gadbois <martin.gadbois@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent:     Mon, 01 May 2006 10:50:18 -0400
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cknell@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I saw both of them, but I must confess that I am unable to extract a list of prohibited characters from either.

Check
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-Letter


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