- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:01:58 +0100
- To: Mathias Bynens <mathias@qiwi.be>
- Cc: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
* Mathias Bynens wrote: >http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-syntax/#characters defines CSS escape >sequences of the form `\000026` or `\26 `, both of which decode to >`&`. > >WebKit browsers don’t support this syntax for characters outside the >BMP: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76152 For example, >`\1d306 ` or `\01d306` are supposed to be escape sequences for the >“tetragram for centre” symbol (U+1D306), but they don’t work in >WebKit. > >There seems to be another way to escape these characters, namely by >breaking them up in UTF-16 code units: `\d834\df06 `. All browsers >except Gecko (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=717529) >seem to support this, even though this isn’t mentioned in the spec. > >Should the spec be changed to reflect reality? I so no reason why it should be. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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