- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:58:20 +0000
- To: Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Cc: Richard Tobin <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk>, Konrad Lanz <Konrad.Lanz@iaik.tugraz.at>, "Grosso, Paul" <pgrosso@ptc.com>, Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>, public-i18n-core@w3.org, public-xml-core-wg@w3.org, public-iri@w3.org
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Martin Duerst writes:
> I think one additional argument for not including '[' and ']'
> in escaping when going from Legacy Extended IRIs to IRIs is
> that for all the other characters, this can be done independent
> of syntax details, but for '[' and ']', it would have to be
> done in a context-dependent manner, because clearly these
> characters must not be escaped when they serve as delimiters
> for IPv6 addresses.
I agree. I do not think we should change the status of [ and ], and I
think that is close to the consensus position of the Core WG.
ht
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