- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:30:00 -0400
- To: David Clarke <d.r.clarke@sheffield.ac.uk>
- CC: "Paul Nelson (ATC)" <paulnel@winse.microsoft.com>, Mark Davis <mark.davis@icu-project.org>, www-style@w3.org, public-i18n-core@w3.org
David Clarke wrote: > Paul (et Al) > > Following original discussion by the I18N core; > > I am proposing that the correct response to any invalid Unicode escape > should be to treat it > as a parse error (see section 4.1.8), in the same way that any other > invalid or unexpected character would be. > This would be consistent with current CSS error handling. > > For clarity Add this text to 4.1.3 at CSS 2.1 > http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#q6 > <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#q6> : > > If the number is outside the range allowed by Unicode (e.g., > "\110000" is above the maximum 10FFFF allowed in current Unicode), > then the parser should treat this as parse error and A user agent > must ignore a declaration containing this invalid property name or > value. > > see: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#ignore As Mark pointed out, replacing the invalid Unicode escape with the replacement character would have that effect anyway, unless it were in a string value such as for the 'content' property. I think that solution has the advantage of being much simpler and also doing what we want (making the property declaration etc invalid) in most cases. ~fantasai
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