At 23:42 15.04.2001 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>DougEwell2@cs.com writes:
>
> > I hope that the claim of "multiple UTF-8 representations" does
> > indeed refer to glyphs, in the sense that Unicode contains both
> > precomposed characters and separable elements, halfwidth and
> > fullwidth ASCII variants, etc.
>
>Yes, I was referring to (sequences of) Unicode characters which
>represent glyphs looking very similar.
for the least disgusting treatment of this subject in the IETF, refer to
draft-ietf-idn-nameprep-03.txt.
we would love to see UNICODE and/or ISO give stable and useful references
to get us out of trouble in this space.
(note: stable is VERY important....people don't love updates that require
changing software in every PC and PDA in the world....)
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