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Re: [CSS21] 4.1.3 Characters and case: Number Sign (#) in identifiers

From: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:15:39 -0400
Message-ID: <7c2a12e20904200615g3749cdfah917259cedfdcbe04@mail.gmail.com>
To: James Hopkins <james@idreamincode.co.uk>
Cc: Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org> 
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:57 AM, James Hopkins <james@idreamincode.co.uk> wrote:
> I just wanted to clarify whether the Number Sign (U+0023) is indeed "higher"
> than the U+00A1 character as the spec suggests, since U+0023 doesn't need to
> be explicitly escaped.

23 is less than A1 in hexadecimal, so U+0023 is lower than U+00A1, not
higher.  "Higher" here means "larger codepoint".

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