Re: For review: 6 new and 2 updated articles about character encoding

Leif Halvard Silli scripsit (2010-08-16 22:52+02:00):
> You don't say why one should advice to always close CSS character
> escapes with a space.

If one always closes CSS character escapes with a space, one does not 
have to think about whether the space may be left out or not.

'.\E9 motion': the space may be left out: '.\E9motion'.
'.\E9 dition': the space must not be left out ('.\E9dition' would be the 
same as '.\E9D ition')

Now I get it why Richard uses émotion vs. édition.

I would do it the other way around: Introduce CSS escapes beginning with 
'\' and ending with space, then mention that under certain circumstances 
the space may be omitted but sould not.

(Analog to HTML escapes beginning with '&' and ending with ';', under 
certain circumstances the ';' may be omitted but should not.)

Gunnar

PS: Maybe it was not the best idea to give the space different meanings 
in CSS: descendant combinator 'foo bar'; escape delimiter; just space 
'foo + bar { baz: quz }'.