- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 09:33:27 -0700
- To: Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com>
- Cc: W3C Style <www-style@w3.org>
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com> wrote:
> The current tokenizer syntax [1] specifies:
>
> escape {unicode}|\\[^\r\n\f0-9a-f]
> badstring1 \"([^\n\r\f\\"]|\\{nl}|{escape})*\\?
>
> Given the following input string:
>
> < U+0022 (QUOTATION MARK), U+005C (REVERSE SOLIDUS), U+0000 (NULL) >
>
> Does the < U+005C, U+0000 > match escape or does it match the final \\? ?
> That is, should U+0000 be treated as an escapable character or as EOF (EOS)?
> The above grammar suggests the former.
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/grammar.html
This is currently undefined, because I haven't yet tested browsers to
see what their handling is. It may be that browsers auto-convert or
auto-remove NULs, I dunno.
~TJ
Received on Saturday, 6 October 2012 16:34:14 UTC