Re: Open Issue #61: Proposed Update UAX #15 Unicode Normalization Forms

From: Michael \(michka\) Kaplan (michka@trigeminal.com)
Date: Wed Jan 26 2005 - 15:53:58 CST

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    From: "Simon Josefsson" <jas@extundo.com>

    > However, by making the change, normalization over time become
    > instable, and lead to similar consistency issues. If one application
    > use Unicode 3.2 (or 4.0) and normalize the string, and another
    > application use 4.1, you also get a different answer.

    A problem that happens in all standards, like XML, which is why they have as
    line ast the top of the XML standard that says:

    "Please refer to the errata for this document, which may include some
    normative corrections.Please refer to the errata for this document, which
    may include some normative corrections."

    With a link to errata.

    This is how standards work. Given how many errata exist in some standards,
    it is amazing the standard to which Unicode is held BY THE SAME PEOPLE who
    appove errata elsewhere that make normative corrections.

    MichKa [MS]
    NLS Collation/Locale/Keyboard Technical Lead
    Globalization Infrastructure, Fonts, and Tools
    Microsoft Windows International Division

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