Re: Wherefore no HTAB in literal text strings in ABNF

Dave Crocker <[email protected]> Sun, 14 Aug 2016 18:37:11 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.rfc822
Organization Brandenburg InternetWorking
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8/14/2016 6:34 PM, Sean Leonard wrote:
> I have been working with RFC 5234 lately. What is the rationale (or what are the rationales) for including SP %d32 but excluding HTAB %d9 in char-val, aka the literal text string? I am sure that this decision was not an oversight.

I don't recall.  Sorry.  I could generate guesses, but that's all they'd be.

d/

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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net

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