Re: Allowing \u escaped surrogate pairs

• From: Gregory Williams <greg@evilfunhouse.com>
• Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:55:17 -0700
• To: James Anderson <anderson.james.1955@gmail.com>
• Cc: RDF-star Working Group <public-rdf-star-wg@w3.org>
• Message-Id: <5EB274FE-F7D7-407B-8FF7-559B9C7A6C7C@evilfunhouse.com>

> On Apr 30, 2026, at 3:26 AM, James Anderson <anderson.james.1955@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> i try to keep my model of program behaviours simple.
> 
> surrogate pairs appear as an element of the utf-16 encoding only.

I don’t think this is really true. Things like JSON use surrogates in escaping syntax (just like is being proposed here), even though many systems implementing it likely do not have an internal implementation based on UTF-16. There are of course historical reasons for this. But since we’re talking about *escaped* data, the underlying encoding isn’t critical to the decision here.

.greg

Received on Thursday, 30 April 2026 14:55:34 UTC