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Re: Syntax

"Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net> Wed, 10 January 2007 16:35 UTC

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From: "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net>
To: Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de>
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Frank Ellermann said:
>> Allow UTF-8 in both quoted and unquoted identifiers.
> 
> This is horrible.  If folks want XML 1.1 they know where to find it.
> 
> It's a specification language for state machines.

Only American state machines? Both English and French use non-ASCII
characters.

I suggest, once again, that we need Area Director advice on this. Either we
can get away with ASCII-only (as 4234 does) or we can't. In the latter
case, we might as well do it properly.

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