Re: Input on Fielding's -02 draft

Tim Bray scripsit:

> Section 3.1 and elsewhere.  Draft refers to '#' as crosshatch and '@' as 
> 'commercial at sign'.  I'm an old text geek and I don't really know 
> these names.  Might it be a good idea, for maximum reach, to adopt (or 
> at least mention) the Unicode names?

"Commercial at" is indeed the Unicode name of "@"; but I agree that it
would be better to use the Unicode name "number sign" for "#".

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