- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:42:11 -0500
- To: Andrew Cunningham <andrewc@vicnet.net.au>
- CC: public-i18n-core@w3.org, W3C Style List <www-style@w3.org>
Andrew Cunningham wrote: > Until UTN 11 v 3 is published i wouldn't normalise text in the Myanmar > script. > > In a number of African languages it is useful to work with NFD data, esp > if you also want to comply with certain AAA checkpoints in WCAG 2.0. Andrew, forgive my ignorance, but does this mean that normalizing everything in the UA at parse-time (and normalizing the content of form fields that the user types in at typing time, of course) is not in fact a viable option? > A text editor that doesn't normalise to NFC isn't broken. An ideal text > editor gives teh user the choice on what normalisation form to use. This in particular worries me, in light of the form input issue. -Boris
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