Re: [CSS2.1] escapes, characters and parsing

Your tests lack of the <meta assert=""/> so it's difficult to say what is
correct or wrong here.
Generally, an escape sequence is said to remove any special meaning to the
characters that follow it.
So \* should be read as...? The point is that you're using literal tokens
here, so you should write an assert statement that says:

Description: Behavior of escape sequences with literal tokens
Assert: An escape sequence removes the special meaning of tokens.

However, an escape sequence also introduces an Unicode sequence. Since the
sequences you've provided (in the cases of \p and \*) are not valid Unicode
sequences, it's likely that some browsers ignore them and try to apply the
first thing they recognize as valid (so \p becomes p and \* becomes *).

HTH :-)

Gabriele


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