- From: Mark Davis <mark.davis@jtcsv.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 13:08:26 -0800
- To: "Martin Duerst" <duerst@w3.org>
- Cc: <www-international@w3.org>
Looks good. One minor point. You say: This example shows that the case of escaping may not be preserved. "case" could be misread (e.g. wie "fall" uf tuetsch). Might be better to rephrase to: This example shows that the case (upper or lower) of ASCII characters used in escapes may not be preserved. Mark __________________________________ http://www.macchiato.com ► “Eppur si muove” ◄ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Duerst" <duerst@w3.org> To: "Mark Davis" <mark.davis@jtcsv.com> Cc: <www-international@w3.org> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 12:52 Subject: Re: Announcing draft-duerst-iri-02.txt > 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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