Public Comment Number PC-UK0028

ISO/IEC CD 9899 (SC22N2620) Public Comment

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Date: 1998-01-03
Author: Clive D.W. Feather
Author Affiliation: Self
Postal Address:
    Demon Internet Limited
    322 Regents Park Road
    London
    N3  2QQ
    United Kingdom
E-mail Address: <clive@demon.net>
Telephone Number: +44 181 371 1138
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Number of individual comments: 1


Comment 1. 
Category: Normative change to existing feature retaining the original intent
Committee Draft subsection: 5.2.4.1

Title: clarify translation limit for identifiers using UCNs.

Detailed description:

In 5.2.4.1, change the relevant translation limits to:

    - 63 significant initial characters in an internal identifier or
      a macro name (a universal-character-name shall count as one)

    - 31 significant initial characters in an external identifier (a
      univeral-character-name shall count as 4 if less than 0000FFFF,
      and 8 otherwise)

or some other wording that reflects the Committee's intent if different.