DR 09-0292 - OPC: Space characters in part names

[Francis Cave]

Chris, hi

Happy for you to submit a defect report on the second point. 

As to the first point, I was getting slightly confused between IRIs and
URIs. Obviously unreserved Unicode characters (in the 'iunreserved' set
defined in RFC 3987) don't need to be percent-encoded in IRIs. However, I
think we're agreed that spaces can be allowed and an example would be
helpful.

Francis

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Rae [mailto:Chris.Rae at microsoft.com]
> Sent: 12 August 2010 23:49
> To: francis at franciscave.com; e-SC34-WG4 at ecma-international.org
> Subject: RE: DR 09-0292 - OPC: Space characters in part names
> 
> Agreed on the first point. To your "incidentally" point, that's a fine
> one. I don't believe there's a DR for it and it looks like a clear
> error. I'm happy to submit one unless you want to.
> 
> Chris
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Francis Cave [mailto:francis at franciscave.com]
> Sent: 12 August 2010 13:03
> To: e-SC34-WG4 at ecma-international.org
> Subject: RE: DR 09-0292 - OPC: Space characters in part names
> 
> What is the problem with having a percent-encoded space character in a
> Part name? There is no problem converting a Unicode space to the
> percent-encoded form for an IRI, just as all other Unicode characters
> that don't belong to the set of reserved and unreserved IRI characters
> have to be percent-encoded. I see no obvious reason to exclude it. An
> example would, as Murata-san suggests in the DR, be useful.
> 
> Incidentally, in A.1 "a Unicode string is converted to an IRI by
> percent-encoding each ASCII character that does not belong to the set
> of reserved or unreserved characters as defined in RFC 3986" doesn't
> make sense, because "ASCII character" should read "Unicode character".
> Has a defect report already been submitted on this point?
> 
> Francis
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Rae [mailto:Chris.Rae at microsoft.com]
> > Sent: 12 August 2010 19:32
> > To: e-SC34-WG4 at ecma-international.org
> > Subject: DR 09-0292 - OPC: Space characters in part names
> >
> > http://cid-
> >
> c8ba0861dc5e4adc.office.live.com/view.aspx/Public%20Documents/2009/DR-
> > 09-0292.docx
> >
> > This DR asks whether the space character is permitted in OPC part
> > names. In 9.1.1.1 the standard states, "A Part name shall be an IRI
> > and shall be encoded as either a Part IRI or a Part URI."  The ABNF
> > for part-IRI and part-URI do not include space as a valid character.
> > So the actual part name cannot contain a space. As far as converting
> > Unicode strings goes, A.1 states, "a Unicode string is converted to
> an
> > IRI by percent-encoding each ASCII character that does not belong to
> > the set of reserved or unreserved characters as defined in RFC 3986."
> > The space characters is not part of the definitions of reserved or
> > unreserved in the RFC.
> >
> > I think it's reasonably clear that spaces are not permitted in part
> > names, but I'd agree that it's something implementers might want to
> > have made more obvious. I propose that we resolve this DR by adding
> an
> > example to the existing table in A.4 (informative), incorporating a
> > Unicode string with a space in it.
> >
> > Any objections?
> >
> > Chris
>