# must fail: dash_adjacency_char_ref_not_a_char
# a character reference to a non-character read (dash_read::read_xml)
diff --git a/wai/wai-rs/src/http_binding/dash_read.rs b/wai/wai-rs/src/http_binding/dash_read.rs
index 79d55df6..fdd384ae 100644
--- a/wai/wai-rs/src/http_binding/dash_read.rs
+++ b/wai/wai-rs/src/http_binding/dash_read.rs
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ impl<'a> Reader<'a> {
                 } else {
                     None
                 };
-                n.and_then(char::from_u32).filter(|&c| xml_char(c)).ok_or_else(|| malformed("a reference to an entity or character outside the subset"))?
+                n.and_then(char::from_u32).ok_or_else(|| malformed("a reference to an entity or character outside the subset"))?
             }
         };
         self.at += end + 1;