- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:53:07 +0400
- To: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org, Eliot Graff <eliotgra@microsoft.com>, public-i18n-core@w3.org
Richard Ishida, Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:40:24 +0100: > FWIW, the i18n group keeps track of comments on your doc at > http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/1007-polyglot/ 7th issue: ]] 8. Named Entity References Named entity references " For example, polyglot markup uses   instead of . " We would prefer your example to use the hexadecimal NER   rather than the decimal. See http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-charmod-20050215/#C048 [[ Comment: Why? Is that a special recommendation with regard to just the non-breaking-space character? As much as I know, the I18N WG have some documents which recommend using hexadecimal rather than decimal NCRs. Is that the issue you want to put through? However, how can Polyglot Markup have stronger requirements than XHTML and HTML have? I here get the feeling that it is your "this spec should not be a spec, but a friendly authoring guide" which comes through. You feel that you can give stricter (but friendlier, still?) requirements in a guide than in a spec. I can agree that the Polyglot Markup spec should mention the hexadecimal _as well as_ the decimal. But I see no reason to not mention the decimal. You may also want to consult bug 9300 [2]. It shows that if we want to create a maximum compatibility specification, then decimal NCRs are sometimes more IE compatible than hexadecimal ones are. That bug demonstrates, I dare say, a lot of the user agent bugs with regards to NCRs. If we want Polyglot Markup to be maximum compatible w.r.t. NCRS, then we should probably: 1) recommend decimal NCRs over hexadecimal NCRs 2) recommend authors to not add zeros in NCRs - e.g. require/recommend å rather than å 3) for even better compatibility, one should not use NCRs ... However, to be honest, I am not 100% certain that we _should_ go down that road ... [1] http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9962 [2] http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9300 -- leif halvard silli
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