David Starner <dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org> writes:
> 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.
And those are not equivalent under normalization? That's a pity.
> There are a number of spaces, and apostrophes that will get confused
> for each other.
Hmm, perhaps it's best to recommend verification of identifiers by
some kind of database lookup, at least if they contain non-ASCII
characters.
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