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Re: [Json] Consensus call: ABNF nits

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Sat, 22 June 2013 01:12 UTC

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From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
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Norbert Lindenberg scripsit:

> > HEXDIG = DIGIT / %x41-46 / %x61-66   ; 0-9, A-F, or a-f
> >       ; HEXDIG equivalent to HEXDIG rule in [RFC5234]
> 
> To complete the effort of disambiguating Unicode characters in the
> grammar, the comment should include "U+0030 through U+0039, U+0041
> through U+0046, U+0061 through U+0066". We don't want them to be
> confused with ０-９, Ａ-Ｆ, or ａ-ｆ.

I fail to see what U+0041 says that %x41 does not already say.

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