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Re: [Json] Proposal for strings/Unicode text

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Mon, 17 June 2013 14:23 UTC

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On Jun 17, 2013, at 7:14 AM, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:

> Paul Hoffman scripsit:
> 
>>> unescaped = %x20-21 / %x23-5B / %x5D-D7FF / %xE000-10FFFF
>>>   ; any Unicode scalar value, except those that must be escaped
>>>   ; (control characters, quotation mark, and reverse solidus)
>> 
>> Making comments in ABNF that disagree with the ABNF itself
>> seems like a completely terrible idea that will lead to lack of
>> interoperability. Complicated ABNF is better than simple ABNF that
>> has contradictory comments.
> 
> Where's the contradiction?  The prose says exactly what the ABNF says.
> %22 (quotation mark), %5C (backslash), and %D800 through %DFFF (surrogate
> pairs) are left out of the full Unicode range.

U+0000-0019 is not the entire list of Unicode control characters? U+0022 is not the only Unicode quotation mark.

Did we not learn anything from the IDN WG work 13 years ago?

--Paul Hoffman

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