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Re: Variations of mapping from Japanese encodings to Unicode

From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 12:14:06 +0900
To: Mark Davis <mark@macchiato.com>, MURATA Makoto <muraw3c@attglobal.net>, ietf-charsets@iana.org
Cc: mark.davis@us.ibm.com
Message-id: <4.2.0.58.J.20010906121128.00cf3e70@localhost>
Hello Mark,

Is it possible for the UTC to provide a version of this DTD that
is guaranteed not to change (even if it may become outdated by
a new version)? This would help avoid problems in the future.

As for <import>, I think the main functionality that Makoto needs
(small file size, no data duplication) can be achieved with
XML entities.

Regards,  Martin.

At 07:43 01/08/30 -0700, Mark Davis wrote:
>The DTD was changed in the last version (December last year). The changes
>are listed in http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr22/#Modifications
>
>The major change was the removal of <import>, which the UTC felt made the
>validity checking too cumbersome. In the previous version, you could use
>imports to override mappings in another version.
>
>Unfortunately, I see that you use <import> extensively, so that you would
>have to regenerate the files in their complete form.
>
>[There are three more changes that were approved this year for 2022 and some
>other minor cases, but they are backwards compatible.]
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