Re: [CSS21][css3-namespace][css3-page][css3-selectors][css3-content] Unicode Normalization from Boris Zbarsky on 2009-02-01 (public-i18n-core@w3.org from January to March 2009)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:13:16 -0500
To: Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
CC: public-i18n-core@w3.org, www-style@w3.org
Message-ID: <4985E63C.2010501@mit.edu>

Martin Duerst wrote:
> [One can also consider the case of a script doing very special
> things with identifiers such as class names, chopping them in
> half between two accents and such, but I think this case is way
> too farfetched.]

It certainly happens in practice.  Sites build up UTF-16 strings a 
codepoint at a time all the time, and enforce length limits on them.

-Boris

Received on Sunday, 1 February 2009 18:14:02 UTC