- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:27:37 -0500
- To: Zhe Wu <alan.wu@oracle.com>
- Cc: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>, Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>, public-rdf-wg@w3.org
On Aug 21, 2011, at 12:28 PM, Zhe Wu wrote: > Hi Richard, > > Well, seeing "Großräschen" is only better when the engineer understands that particular language, isn't it? Actually, no. It is just plain better for all but a tiny fraction of human readers, anywhere on the planet. This tiny fraction includes some software engineers. I personally will simply ignore any string that contains \u escapes, and immediately cease using any software that shows them to me. And I suspect that more people share my instincts than share yours. Pat Hayes > To me personally, seeing that encoded string is better than a string containing characters that I don't read. > On the Linux terminal I am using, I can't even cut & paste that string. It only gets the "Gro" portion right. > > I understand the perspective of developer usability and a possible escaping cost for implementation on > some platforms. However, none of them seems to be significant enough to justify all the potential interoperability, > and backward compatibility issues. > > Thanks, > > Zhe > > > On 8/21/2011 8:06 AM, Richard Cyganiak wrote: >> Zhe, >> >> On 20 Aug 2011, at 02:34, Zhe Wu wrote: >>> I don't see how adding UTF8 encoding can make N-TRIPLES much more useful. >> For data debugging and developer usability, seeing "Großräschen" in an N-Triples document is better than seeing "Gro\u00DFr\u00E4schen". >> >> It also decreases the cost of implementing N-Triples serializers, because they can now directly emit UTF-8 strings rather than requiring a custom escaping routine for handling non-US-ASCII characters. >> >> Best, >> Richard > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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