From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Wed Dec 08 2004 - 16:51:55 CST
Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk scripsit:
> String equality in a programming language should not treat composed
> and decomposed forms as equal. Not this level of abstraction.
Well, that assumes that there's a special "string equality" predicate, as
distinct from just having various predicates that DWIM. In a Unicode Lisp
implementation, e.g., equal might be char-by-char equality and equalp might not.
> They are supposed to be equivalent when they are actual characters.
> What if they are numeric character references? Should "≮"
> (7 characters) represent a valid plain-text character or be a broken
> opening tag?
It's a broken opening tag.
> Note that if it's a valid plain-text character, it's impossible
> to represent isolated combining code points in XML,
It's problematic to represent the *specific* combining code point
when it appears immediately after a tag.
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