Re: ABNF Re: Troubles with UTF-8

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Misha Wolf" <Misha.Wolf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Tom.Petch" <sisyphus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "ietf" <ietf@xxxxxxxx>
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: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] 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
>
>


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