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

"Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net> Thu, 25 January 2007 08:06 UTC

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From: "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net>
To: John C Klensin <john@jck.com>
Subject: Re: Next step (Was: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-unicode-escapes-00.txt
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John C Klensin said:
>> If ABNF can't do what we want, I'd say, use something
>> better-suited to the need.  Perhaps it would be enough to say
>> that the spec uses ABNF except that the character after the
>> backslash is case-sensitive?
> 
> As I said, I'm confident we can figure something out.  That
> would certainly be among the alternatives although my instinct
> would be to hunt up Dave and Paul and ask them for advice, at
> least as a first step.

Paul works in the same building as me, so I'll happily deal with that once
we know what we're trying to do.

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