Re: FWD: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-unicode-escapes-00.txt

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Mon, 22 January 2007 09:27 UTC

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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:27:11 +0100
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
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Subject: Re: FWD: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-unicode-escapes-00.txt
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On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:02:30AM +0000,
 Clive D.W. Feather <clive@demon.net> wrote 
 a message of 87 lines which said:

> I certainly agree that encoding of UTF-8 sequences is the wrong
> thing to do.

++++1
 
> (1) I agree that anything is better than nothing.

+0.5
 
> (2) While \uXXXX is better than encoded UTF-8, it's far worse than
> something explicitly delimited.

+1 (parsing programs author's POV)