Re: Typographical error in draft-klensin-unicode-escapes-00

"Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net> Mon, 22 January 2007 06:40 UTC

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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 06:40:02 +0000
From: "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net>
To: John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>
Subject: Re: Typographical error in draft-klensin-unicode-escapes-00
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John C Klensin said:
> The right sides
> should read 
>    4*4HexDigit   and
>    2*2Hex-Quad
> respectively.

While these are not incorrect, they are confusing to many readers. ABNF
allows you to write these as:

    4HexDigit     and
    2Hex-Quad

respectively, and I recommend you do so.

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