Re: CHARMOD character escapes

Chris,

Thanks for your comment.  If you decide to submit any more
comments, *please* use the comment submission form:
   http://www.w3.org/2002/05/charmod/LastCall
as this substantially reduces our workload!

Many thanks,
Misha


On 12/07/2002 13:01:57 Chris Haynes wrote:
> I hope its not too late to raise a question about CHARMOD (I'm looking
> at the Working Draft of 30 April).
>
> Section 3.7 - Character escapes - contains the paragraph:
>
> [S] Whenever specifications define character escapes that allow the
> representation of characters using a number the number SHOULD be in
> hexadecimal notation.
>
>
> I rather expected it to continue:
>
> ... and SHOULD represent the Unicode code point of the character.
>
> I wondered if the Reference Preocessing Model (3.5) applied an implied
> mandate to use Unicode, but it seems to permit other encodings to be
> used, and therefore does not seem to supply the 'default' for 3.7.
>
> Have I missed something?
>
> Chris Haynes
>



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