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20197	XML serializer can output invalid characters	ris	nobody	"Specifically Form Feed (0x0c), which is not allowed in XML. At all.

The problem is that saxutils' XMLGenerator is not safe against these characters and the result is having dumpdata output that loaddata can't reimport.

But I'm not sure what should be done about this though, because from what I've read, FF isn't even allowed to be numerically referenced in XML. So - should FFs just be silently swallowed? That doesn't seem right to me. Dumps are supposed to be perfect representations of the data.

Is this just a good reason not to use XML as a dump format?

(Noticed in 1.3, but code is the same in 1.4)"	Cleanup/optimization	closed	Core (Serialization)	1.3	Normal	fixed			Ready for checkin	1	0	0	0	0	0