- From: <JOrendorff@ixl.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 10:50:26 -0400
- To: www-style@w3.org
> Looking at the current syntax for a CSS String below:
> string
> {string1}|{string2}
>
> string1
> \"([\t !#$%&(-~]|\\{nl}|\'|{nonascii}|{escape})*\"
> string2
> \'([\t !#$%&(-~]|\\{nl}|\"|{nonascii}|{escape})*\'
>
> A simple string like "hello world" is invalid. The syntax seems too
> restrictive for general strings. Am I misinterpreting something?
I think the part that says [...(-~] means to include all
the characters from ( to ~. In ASCII or Unicode, that
spans codepoints 40 to 126 and includes all the ASCII
letters and digits, plus assorted punctuation.
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Jason Orendorff
Received on Friday, 23 June 2000 10:51:05 UTC