Re: Regular expressions should support \x{....} escapes

* Michael Kay wrote:
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod/#C073 has "Publicly interchanged content
>> SHOULD NOT use codepoints in the private use area." Reference to and
>> use of are equivalent concepts here. You might well argue that SHOULD
>> NOT is not MUST NOT, conformance checkers are nevertheless going to
>> point out violations of the SHOULD NOT requirement 
>
>I fail to see how a conformance checker is supposed to know whether the
>content is being publicly interchanged. I would think that most conformance
>checkers are likely to give the user the benefit of the doubt, or at least
>to provide options.

I'd assume it'd look like

  WARNING: Publicly interchanged content SHOULD NOT
           use codepoints in the private use area.

Educated users can then decide to ignore this.
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Received on Tuesday, 24 January 2006 10:47:43 UTC