From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Fri Dec 26 2003 - 19:23:42 EST
Those who still feel it is self-evident that the Unicode Technical
Committee should correct "obvious" normalization errors, in things like
compatibility equivalents and combining classes, might want to take a
look at a new Internet-Draft:
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-faltstrom-unicode-synchronisati
on-00.txt
in which Patrik Fältström, a major contributor to the Internationalized
Domain Names Architecture (IDNA) effort, argues that the six
normalization corrections already approved, together with the potential
for more corrections, may create security and stability problems, and
includes the following passage:
> 3.1 Message to the Unicode Consortium
>
> The IETF strongly encourages the Unicode Consortium to keep the size
> and rate of change of the correction list to an absolute minimum, as
> it will be impossible for implementations (applications) to know
> what version of the normalization tables which are in use. This is
> because, in practice, the tables in many cases will be part of the
> operating system. The end user will expect the same normalization
> rules to be used in all applications in her environment.
Obviously the issue of stability vs. "correctness" is not as
black-and-white as some may think.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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