Re: Identifiers

From: David Starner (dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org)
Date: Sun Apr 15 2001 - 19:02:07 EDT


On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 08:10:55PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Is it sufficient to mandate that all such identifiers MUST be KC- or
> KD-normalized? Does this guarantee print-and-enter round-trip
> compatibility?

In general, the problem is unsolvable. There are several look-alikes
among the Cyrillic, Greek, Latin and Cherokee blocks, among others.
There are a number of spaces, and apostrophes that will get confused
for each other. A number of dingbats look the same at small resolutions;
Roman Cyzzbora stopped in the middle of the U+27xx block because they
couldn't be drawn in Unifont's resolution.

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