Re:IRI/URI Canonicalization does not address IRIs with IDNs

From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hpl.hp.com> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:24:56 +0000 Message-ID: <47B47968.7000708@hpl.hp.com> To: public-powderwg@w3.org CC: public-i18n-core@w3.org · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Wednesday, 1 October 2008 00:56:55 GMT

Eric said:
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  I've never
implemented Unicode normalization, but I expect it's not trivial.
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You can use a third party library, e.g. IBM's icu library.

It is then quite straightforward.

The icu4j library is fairly large, and I believe larger than needed for 
this problem (since it solves most other I18N problems too). But, I 
don't think this is really a problem in practice.

I would urge the group to specify the right thing, whatever that is, and 
not be too concerned about the detail here.

I believe that fairly soon most Web addresses will have IDNs.

Jeremy