[css2] Added emphasis to make text about initial hyphen easier to read.

bert-github · bert-github · commit 33c23fa1b6aa · 2004-03-08T18:40:14.000Z
Added that @charset must be the literal, lowercase characters, not escaped. --HG-- extra : convert_revision : svn%3A73dc7c4b-06e6-40f3-b4f7-9ed1dbc14bfc/trunk%402243
diff --git a/css2/syndata.src b/css2/syndata.src
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
         "http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-html40-19980424/loose.dtd">
 <html lang="en">
-<!-- $Id: syndata.src,v 2.102 2004-02-25 16:36:18 bbos Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: syndata.src,v 2.103 2004-03-08 18:40:14 bbos Exp $ -->
 <head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
 <title>Syntax and basic data types</title>
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ href="#parsing-errors">rules for handling parsing errors</a>. However, because t
     characters [A-Za-z0-9] and ISO 10646 characters <!--161--> U+00A1 and higher,
     plus the hyphen (-) and the underscore (_); they cannot start with a digit. 
     Only properties, values, units, pseudo-classes,
-    pseudo-elements, and at-rules may start with a hyphen (-); other
+    pseudo-elements, and at-rules may <em>start</em> with a hyphen (-); other
     identifiers (e.g. element names, classes, or IDs) may not.
     Identifiers can also contain escaped characters and any ISO 10646
     character as a numeric code (see next item).
@@ -1204,9 +1204,9 @@ encoding</span> (from highest priority to lowest):
 </ol>
 
 <p>At most one @charset rule may appear in an external style sheet and
-it must appear at the very start of the style sheet, not preceded by any
-characters, except possibly a "BOM" (U+FEFF).
-Any other @charset rules must be ignored by the UA.
+it must appear at the very start of the style sheet or immediately
+after a Byte Order Mark (BOM, U+FEFF) that is at the very start of the
+style sheet. Any other @charset rules must be ignored by the UA.
 </p>
 
 <p>After "@charset", authors specify the name of a character encoding
@@ -1215,6 +1215,11 @@ Any other @charset rules must be ignored by the UA.
 
 <pre class="example">@charset "ISO-8859-1";</pre>
 
+<p>@charset must be written literally, i.e., the 10 characters
+'@charset "' (lowercase, no backslash escapes), followed by the
+encoding name, followed by '";'.
+</p>
+
 <p>The name must be a charset name as described in the IANA registry.
 See [[-CHARSETS]] for a complete list of charsets. Authors should use
 the charset names marked as "preferred MIME name" in the IANA
