Re: I18N-ISSUE-187: escape syntax [TURTLE]

On 7 Sep 2012, at 18:39, Eric Prud'hommeaux wrote:
> I expect that there is exactly 0 real data out there using \UXXXXXXXX.

There are real implementations that produce and consume it.

Download a DBpedia dump, grep for \U. I'm pretty sure you'll find something. (I'd get right on it, except that it's pub o'clock in Galway.)

> If others presume the same, we could shed \U altogether or reduce it to 6 digits (per I18N-ISSUE-191, bottom of <http://www.w3.org/mid/E1TA0zY-0003XQ-KX@nelson.w3.org>).

The slight WTF of using 8 hex digits were 6 would suffice is still better than very subtly deviating from ISO C, C++, C#, and Python.

Best,
Richard

Received on Friday, 7 September 2012 18:41:38 UTC