- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:12:36 +0200
- To: Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Cc: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>, "www-i18n-comments@w3.org" <www-i18n-comments@w3.org>
* Martin Duerst wrote: >[...] The Recommendation is very clear, the requirement Escapes SHOULD only be used when the characters to be expressed are not directly representable in the format or the character encoding of the document, or when the visual representation of the character is unclear. is not optional and must be complied with unless there are specific reasons not to, and in the rare and exceptional cases where there are such specific reasons we have the requirement Content SHOULD use the hexadecimal form of character escapes rather than the decimal form when there are both. that is not optional either and must be complied with unless there are specific reasons not to. These are conformance requirements, not some tips for cooler coding. I am planning to flag all violations of SHOULD level requirements as Warnings in the Markup Validator, no matter whether it's use of private use code points, choice of encodings, or use of escape sequences. If that is not what you want, the document is in error. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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