Re: Next step (Was: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-unicode-escapes-00.txt

John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> Wed, 24 January 2007 20:42 UTC

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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:42:37 -0500
From: John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>
To: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
Subject: Re: Next step (Was: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-unicode-escapes-00.txt
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--On Wednesday, 24 January, 2007 16:31 +0100 Stephane Bortzmeyer
<bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 09:14:21AM -0500,
>  John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> wrote 
>  a message of 52 lines which said:
> 
>> I don't see how to get agreement on a single form: almost
>> everyone who doesn't like \u / \U likes something
>> different...  there is no evidence in the notes I have
>> received that indicates one uniform strong preference in the
>> community as to what the syntax should be.
> 
> But there is (may be) a rough consensus that every scheme with
> explicit delimiters (&#xNNNN; or \u{NNNNN}) is better than any
> scheme without them? If so, it would be a progress.

Much as I would personally prefer that answer, I haven't seen
such a consensus emerge yet.

    john