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I had a problem with some illegal xml characters being submitted from a form. I was. Some user had cop pasted a Vertical tab into the form and submitted it. When I copied this out of the database it would show like this(in notepad++)

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I cleaned this with this method

function cleanXmlChars(input) {
    var NOT_SAFE_IN_XML_1_0 = /[^\x09\x0A\x0D\x20-\xFF\x85\xA0-\uD7FF\uE000-\uFDCF\uFDE0-\uFFFD]/gm;
    return input.replace(NOT_SAFE_IN_XML_1_0, '');
};

Thanks to Removing invalid characters from XML before serializing it with XMLSerializer()

I thought I was ll done but then I tried holding down Alt + 11 and i found out that this character was not removed

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Aint this the same illegal character? Wont this cause the same trouble if typed in?

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