Re: Non-ASCII letters trigger "Lexical error"

Andreas Prilop <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.w3c.validator.css
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On Mon, 2 May 2011, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

> I have tested various combinations, and it seems as if the W3C CSS
> Validator does not accept non-Ascii letters in identifiers in general.
> I suspect this is a recent problem. People have probably used the
> validator on stylesheets with such identifiers, but I have not seen
> complaints about the issue until very recently (and cannot find anything
> relevant to this in the archives - searched with the word "lexical").

Non-ASCII characters in the input *in general* are converted
to question marks:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator-css/2009Apr/0035.html
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator-css/2009Jun/0006.html
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