2 suggestions

[Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng]

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>> If "*-*-solaris2*" should appear as/in the "name" attribute of an <a>,
>> prepending a name start character is not enough, because this attribute
>> is of type NMTOKEN. Therefore it cannot contain * at all.
>
> ...if we are absolutely disallowed to use "*", probably just replacing
> "*" by "x" without any prefix might be the lesser of all evils?

So long as things to get ported to the x-box?  We can't use ?
because it looks like a cgi call.  * looks like it came from
globbing, so is . such a bad choice?  I know it only stands for a
single char in globbing, but it won't run into the 8.3 problems of
DOS filenames because, and  ".-.-solaris2."  looks like soemthing is
missing. "^-^-solaris2^", perhaps, as in printers marks for "insert
this here"?
>
>> If international character sets in XHTML are o.K., maybe there are
>> some letter sets to choose from. Here is a sample.
>
> I feel this might be worse, because it'll look as if everything was okay,
> but when someone copies and pastes the string, it won't work as a proper
> target string.  (Thanks for your expert input, by the way.)

Also URLs end up in funny places, so they may not end up where
unicode (or other non-ascii) is supported.

> Okay?
>
> Gerald
>
         HTH
         Hugh