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Re: draft-klensin-unicode-escapes-05 and draft-klensin-net-utf8-05

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Mon, 08 October 2007 10:08 UTC

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Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:08:09 +0200
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de>
Subject: Re: draft-klensin-unicode-escapes-05 and draft-klensin-net-utf8-05
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On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 11:30:03AM +0200,
 Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de> wrote 
 a message of 150 lines which said:

> In section 5.1 you don't mention a similar trick for "\u'"
> constructs, and "implementors" (i.e. protocol designers)
> might pick some '\\' convention to get a literal '\'.  Is
> that as it should be?

It seems well-covered in the current draft:

> Since this specification does not recommend one specific syntax,
> protocols specifications that use escapes MUST define the syntax
> they are using, including any necessary escapes to permit the escape
> sequence to be used literally.
[...]
> In addition, when an escape is needed for the escape mechanism
> itself, the optimal one of those might differ from one context to
> another.

I would have preferred an official recommandation but it seems there
is no consensus for one specific 'escape the escape' format.

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