- From: Richard Cyganiak <richard@cyganiak.de>
- Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 09:53:42 +0100
- To: Andy Seaborne <andy.seaborne@epimorphics.com>
- Cc: public-rdf-wg@w3.org
On 3 May 2011, at 07:42, Andy Seaborne wrote: > On 03/05/11 00:07, Richard Cyganiak wrote: >> Unicode escapes can be a helpful fallback when some piece of the >> toolchain messes up the encoding; in such situations, they can be the >> only way to make things interoperate. > > Could you give examples of this? Messing up the encoding that I see happens silently, due to system defaults. \u-escape does not have an impact on that (unfortunately). Simple example: editing a Turtle file in a text editor that doesn't understand that Turtle files are UTF-8. Entering non-US-ASCII characters (say, umlauts) in the editor will result in wrongly (say, ISO-8859-1) encoded files. Entering the umlauts as \u escapes is not pretty but solves the immediate problem. Best, Richard
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