- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:43:46 +0200
- To: "Richard Ishida" <ishida@w3.org>
- Cc: "'GEO'" <public-i18n-geo@w3.org>
* Richard Ishida wrote: >Actually the charmod conformance criterion is aimed at people developing >specs, rather than content developers who are the target of the FAQ, and >aims to ensure that a hex representation is available for use by authors. > >See, however: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-charmod-20050215/#C048 > >"C048 [I] [C] Content SHOULD use the hexadecimal form of character >escapes rather than the decimal form when there are both. Yes, content should use the hexadecimal form, not specifications should allow a hexadecimal form. Clearly, all W3C specifications should conform to Charmod, which would mean all content is required to conform to it aswell, which would mean content that uses decimal escapes even though it could use hexadecimal escapes is not unconditionally conforming. It would consequently be appropriate for e.g. http://validator.w3.org/ to complain about the use of numerical escapes. If the Validator does that, people would however complain that the FAQ says use of hexadecimal escapes is not required. It would be more appropriate if the FAQ states that use of decimal escapes is inappropriate most of the time. If that is not intended by C048, it seems C048 should be changed to point this out more clearly. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
Received on Tuesday, 12 July 2005 09:43:52 UTC