- From: Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:13:37 +0900
- To: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- CC: public-i18n-core@w3.org
Richard Ishida wrote: > Folks, > > I did a quick summary of how XML, HTML4 and HTML5 spec refer to     and &nsbp; constructs at http://rishida.net/blog/?page_id=147 > > The most worrying thing is that HTML5 is creating a whole new set of names for these things. So that we have a chance of being understood in the future when talking about these constructs in reviews, guidelines or talks, I propose we write to them and ask them to rename things as follows: > > Character entity references -> character references OR character escapes > > Named entities -> character entity references > > Decimal numeric entities -> decimal numeric character references > > Hexadecimal numeric entities -> hexadecimal numeric character references > > Does everyone agree? > > Perhaps we should even establish some guidelines for naming these things in specs in general. > the guidelines also depend on if the spec is defining a markup language or something else. See also http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-klensin-unicode-escapes-07#section-5.2 Felix
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