On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:01 AM, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote: > Uche Ogbuji scripsit: > > > That's an RFC SHOULD, which means use Normalization Form C unless you > > have an absolutely compelling reason not to. > > > > I do wonder why not just strengthen it that little bit to a MUST. > > There are still environments in which NFD is preferred, and there are > some encodings which when transformed into Unicode codepoint by codepoint > do not produce NFC, notably Vietnamese and bibliographic encodings. > > IMHO, SHOULD is the correct strength of requirement. > OK. That is the sort of info that would be nice to have in a footnote of some sort. Maybe there will soon emerge a MicroXML equivalent to Tim Bray's Annotated XML Spec :) http://www.xml.com/axml/testaxml.htm -- Uche Ogbuji http://uche.ogbuji.net Founding Partner, Zepheira http://zepheira.com http://wearekin.org http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/author/uogbuji/ http://copia.ogbuji.net http://www.linkedin.com/in/ucheogbuji http://twitter.com/uogbuji
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