- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 05:52:42 +0900
- To: "Mark Davis" <mark.davis@jtcsv.com>
- Cc: <www-international@w3.org>
Hello Mark, Thanks for your comments. At 11:22 02/12/02 -0800, Mark Davis wrote: >However, having examples that illustrate the correct conversions will >ameliorate the problems with the wording. A few comments: > >1. You have > > > This example contains the sequence '%fc', which is the same character > > as in the previous example, but represented using iso-8859-1. > >This is misleading: %fc may or may not be represent U+00FC LATIN SMALL >LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS; it all depends on the encoding that it originated >from. The wording would be better as: > > This example contains the sequence '%fc', which would represent a U+00FC >LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS in the iso-8859-1 encoding. (It would >represent other characters in other encodings. For example, %fc in in >iso-8859-5 represents a U+045C CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER KJE.) Done, with a few tweaks. >2. a minor wording item. For each example, you say " This example " when >it would be clearer to say "The following example". Done. >3. using uppercase for the hex makes it stand out better. e.g. > >http://www.example.org/D%fcrst >=> >http://www.example.org/D%FCrst Good point, but in another part of the document, we say that lower case should be used for escapes (to avoid gratuitous differences). Uploaded the new version. Regards, Martin.
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