Re: Comment on PRI 98: IVD Adobe-Japan1 (pt.2)

From: Andrew West (andrewcwest@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Mar 26 2007 - 04:21:25 CST

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    On 26/03/07, mpsuzuki@hiroshima-u.ac.jp <mpsuzuki@hiroshima-u.ac.jp> wrote:
    >
    > As both fixes are not realistic, I wish if UTS #37 is updated
    > to have additional note to prohibit (not deprecate) the
    > codepoint conversion from CJK Compatibility Ideographs to
    > CJK Unified Ideographs with IVS. How do you think?
    >

    I think that Unicode cannot prohibit anyone from applying any
    particular data transformation they like, including codepoint
    conversion from CJK Compatibility Ideographs to CJK Unified Ideographs
    with IVS.

    If, for example, I were to write a text editor that allowed the user
    to perform various transformations to a text (e.g. casing, diacritic
    folding, normalization, transliteration conversions, etc.), there is
    nothing that Unicode could say or do to stop me from also adding in a
    facility to convert between CJK Compatibility Ideographs and their
    corresponding CJK Unified Ideograph plus IVS if I so desired. As long
    as my application does not purport not to modify the text, I believe
    that I would remain conformant if I apply pretty much any data
    transformation I like.

    Andrew



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