Re: [CSS21] 4.1.3 Characters and case: Number Sign (#) in identifiers

James Hopkins wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the clarification regarding these particular hexadecimal 
> codepoints.
> 
> Based on your feedback, my conclusion is that 4.1.3 is in this respect 
> is unclear. The current spec states "... [identifiers] can contain only 
> the characters [a-z0-9] and ISO 10646 characters U+00A1 and higher, plus 
> the hyphen (-) and the underscore (_); they cannot start with a digit, 
> or a hyphen followed by a digit. Identifiers can also contain escaped 
> characters and any ISO 10646 character as a numeric code ..." If indeed 
> the Number Sign is lower than U+00A1 then how can it be acceptable 
> within in an identifier, without being escaped?

Sounds like a bug in the validator to me.

~fantasai

Received on Tuesday, 21 April 2009 23:36:17 UTC