----- Original Message ----- From: "Misha Wolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tom.Petch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "ietf" <ietf@ietf.org> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 10:53 PM Subject: RE: ABNF Re: Troubles with UTF-8
> See: > 2.2. ABNF for IRI References and IRIs > in: > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3987.txt=20 > > Misha > Misha Yes, spot on, thanks for that; I had read the IRI RFC and forgotten it. There is a (Standards Track) precedent for specifying UCS in ABNF. Tom Petch > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Tom.Petch > Sent: 05 January 2006 20:15 > To: James Seng > Cc: ietf > Subject: ABNF Re: Troubles with UTF-8 > > You say that a Unicode code point can be represented by %xABCD but that > is not > spelt out in ABNF [RFC4234]. And when it refers to 'one printable > character' as > '%x20-7E' I get the impressions that coded character sets like Unicode, > with > more than 256 code points, do not fall within its remit. I have yet to > see any > use of this in an I-D or RFC. I did post a question about this to this > list on > 24th December and the lack of response reinforces my view that this is > uncharted > territory. > > Tom Petch > > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
