- From: Zhe Wu <alan.wu@oracle.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:14:03 -0700
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- CC: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>, Steve Harris <steve.harris@garlik.com>, public-rdf-wg@w3.org
Hi Pat, > 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. > I don't think N-TRIPLES is an end user oriented format. It's originally designed for Test cases as pointed out by Jeremy. It happens to be used (quite well actually) by large-scale machine to machine communication as pointed out by Richard. I would dare say that the chance to see \u from a User Interface of a semantic web application is very low. Thanks, Zhe > 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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