On 2022-05-25, at 11:05, William Lupton <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I think this partly depends on the general attitude to non-ASCII characters, 
> e.g., are accented words tolerated, encouraged, frowned upon or forbidden?

Long discussion, including CVEs like:

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/11/01/cve-2021-42574.html

> Are programming languages in general tolerant of smart quotes for defining 
> strings (I don't know but I suspect not)?

Certainly not.  This would be a major innovation, trading convenience for 
correctness.  It also wouldn’t be backwards compatible:

  description "like “foo”, this doesn’t create a “bar”.";

(I had to be careful typing this, I hope I didn’t mess up.)

> If not then I don't think that YANG should be either. But the tools could 
> generate better error messages if they are inadvertently used!

Yes. This is probably a bit harder than one might think, in the presence of 
examples like the above.

Grüße, Carsten

> On Wed, 25 May 2022 at 10:01, Carsten Bormann <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2022-05-25, at 10:51, William Lupton <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> >       "Coalesced revision history entries for 2018-06-28.”;
> 
> Wonderful example.  I’m wondering whether the next version of CDDL should 
> simply accept typographic quotes in place of the typewriter quote…  (and, as 
> the example demonstrates, any weird mix of them.)
> 
> Grüße, Carsten
> 

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