- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:50:31 -0400
- To: Mike Sokolov <sokolov@falutin.net>
- Cc: Tony Graham <tgraham@mentea.net>, public-microxml@w3.org
Mike Sokolov scripsit: > NFC is called out in the Editor's Draft; I think the idea is you can > use what you want, but parsers are free to normalize, caveat emptor, > you might not get what you expect unless you use NFC. At least that > was my breezy interpretation :) Read the spec if you want > precision... There is nothing in the spec allowing parsers to normalize their input. Doing that turns out to be a bad idea, because it may make documents well-formed that were not well-formed before, causing parsers to disagree about this fundamental point. Rather, the spec recommends that *authors* (including generators) always produce NFC to simplify later processing. -- Samuel Johnson on playing the violin: John Cowan "Difficult do you call it, Sir? cowan@ccil.org I wish it were impossible." http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
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