- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 22:02:57 +0100
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- CC: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, "public-html@w3.org LIST" <public-html@w3.org>
On 05.02.2011 21:52, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 2/5/11 3:33 PM, Julian Reschke wrote: >> 4. Risks >> >> None. > > That's not quite true. A benefit of the long format used now is that a > typo in the hex number (in the spec or an implementation) is more likely > be caught, because the long name is there as a double-check. > Unfortunately, typos are _way_ too easy to make in opaque hex strings... :( > > I'm not sure this is a big deal, but this proposal would remove that > redundancy. The proposal is to keep the character itself plus the code point number, so there's still redundancy. Best regards, Julian
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