Re: Syntax

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 12:07:04AM +0000,
 Clive D.W. Feather <clive@demon.net> wrote 
 a message of 48 lines which said:

> I seem to have missed a message or two. What is the problem you're trying
> to solve.

Julian Reschke expressed it here:

http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/cosmogol/current/msg00007.html

Do note that we could be "partly Unicode". We could decide to allow
Unicode only in comments or only in comments and quoted identifiers.

> If it's identifiers using characters outside the ASCII regime, then
> you want people to be able to write them in their own language,

Hmmm, RFC authors are a small minority. RFC readers are more
numerous. An encoding solution, like in RFC 4646 ("Proven&#xE7;al"),
painful for the writer but allowing translators like Shadok to display
nice Unicode characters for the readers (assuming that Graphviz or
other back-ends are Unicode-aware) would be already a big step, it
seems.

> The way we solved this in the C Standard is that you can use such
> characters directly, or you can encode them as \u#### or \U########
> (where # represents a hexadecimal digit). So I can write "xán" or
> "x\u00E1n", and the two are interchangeable.

In C, only in strings, no, not in identifiers? (Cosmogol has only
identifiers.)

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