Re: [VCARDDAV] Progressing draft-daboo-ical-vcard-parameter-encoding-01

Hi Cyrus,

An escape sequence for the horizontal tab character is actually not
necessary.  Horizontal tab characters can be included in a parameter
value without needing to be escaped.  The ABNF definitions for
parameter values (in both the iCalendar and vCard specs) allow for
"WSP".  "WSP" is defined as being a space or horizontal tab character
(see RFC 5234 p.14).

Why not use the conventional backslash character for escaping?  The
vCard specs already state that the LABEL parameter of the ADR property
should use the "\n" sequence to escape newlines (RFC 6350 p.33-34).

So, the escape sequences could instead be:

+---------------------+-------------------------------+
| Escape Sequence     | Character                     |
+---------------------+-------------------------------+
| \" (U+002F, U+0022) | U+0022 (Quotation Mark)       |
| \n (U+002F, U+006E) | U+000A (Line Feed)            |
| \\ (U+002F, U+002F) | U+002F (Backslash)            |
+---------------------+-------------------------------+

Regards,
Mike Angstadt
http://code.google.com/p/ez-vcard

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name> wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I would like to progress
> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-daboo-ical-vcard-parameter-encoding-01>
> through the publication process. After consultation with ADs, we would like
> to have vCard WG and Calsify mailing list participants do one more review of
> this document as an "informal" list last call (note this is not a WG
> document). Please review and post comments to the relevant list by October
> 2nd, thanks.
>
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> Cyrus Daboo
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