Subject: [Ltru] RE: +AFs-Ltru+AF0- Re: +AFs-Ltru+AF0- Re: Proposed changes to region subtags

From: "Addison Phillips" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 09:38:56 -0700

The trailing semi-colon is actually required when processing the NCRs back into characters. Consider this text:

&#x10CDEF

Is that:

U+10CD?
U+10CDE?
U+10CDEF?

Addison

Addison P. Phillips
Globalization Architect, Quest Software
Chair, W3C Internationalization Core Working Group

Internationalization is not a feature.
It is an architecture. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email-masked] [mailto:[email-masked]] On
> Behalf Of Doug Ewell
> Sent: mardi 5 avril 2005 22:04
> To: LTRU Working Group
> Subject: [Ltru] Re: [Ltru] Re: Proposed changes to region subtags
> 
> John Cowan <jcowan at reutershealth dot com> wrote:
> 
> >> We could reverse the slash to a backslash, Java-style...
> >
> > The annoyance is then that you need to use two of them to represent a
> > non-BMP character, which artificially imports UTF-16 rules into the
> > stream of characters.
> 
> Other than the fact that there aren't likely to be many non-BMP
> characters in the registry, couldn't this be simply expanded to the
> capital-U form, thus "\U00010414"?
> 
> >> Using XML references would require the ampersand to be escaped (there
> >> aren't any of those in the registry either), and poses an interesting
> >> problem with the semicolon, which is already escaped because of its
> >> role in separating lists (e.g. of recommended prefixes)...
> >
> > I don't understand any of this.  Why does the existing format escape
> > semicolons?  They aren't used as record-jar delimiters.
> 
> Because of their role in separating lists (e.g. of recommended
> prefixes).
> 
> > Furthermore, XML character references don't require escaped
> > semicolons, because they are magic only inside a character (or entity)
> > reference.
> 
> I see your point.  Then we would have:
> 
> Description: Occitan (post 1500)&#x003B Proven&#x00E7;al
> 
> Is that OK?  Does the semicolon that terminates the character reference
> cause any problems that anyone can see?
> 
> -Doug Ewell
>  Fullerton, California
>  http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
> 
> 
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