Re: draft-klensin-net-utf8 and draft-klensin-unicode-escapes

"Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net> Fri, 05 October 2007 16:21 UTC

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From: "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net>
To: John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>
Subject: Re: draft-klensin-net-utf8 and draft-klensin-unicode-escapes
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John C Klensin said:
> draft-klensin-unicode-escapes
>   -04 has been posted.   It has been reorganized to make it
> easier to follow and to respond to comments from several people
> on and off the list.

First thing I spotted: the syntax in 5.1 is missing the trailing quote mark.

Section 4 is missing the references to ISO-C and Java.

> draft-klensin-net-utf8

Section 2.1 item 3: "control characters" needs to be properly defined,
since it's a SHOULD. Unicode.org is currently offline, but at the least
you either need to make it explicit ranges (say U+0000 to U+001F and U+007F
to U+009F), or base it on a Unicode character class.

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