[charmod-norm] suggestions for reorganizing some sections

hi Addison,

i have lots of suggestions for changes to charmod-norm scribbled in red 
ink on paper, but i think it may be easier to give feedback if i first 
separate out the suggestions for reorganisation of the material - that 
will make it much easier to see and process the more fine-grained 
suggestions later.

i propose to change the order of subsections in section 2 as follows:

2.1 Unicode normalization
2.2 Case folding
2.3 Character escapes
2.4 Unicode controls & invisible markers
2.5 Legacy character encodings

i think this order speaks better to the topicality of the issues 
concerned.  Note that, in line with the Encoding spec and other recent 
changes to our articles, i moved non-Unicode encodings to the bottom, 
since they ought to now be less often in need of discussion than the 
other topics.

i would also suggest to move part of section 3.1 beginning with "There 
are three types of casefold matching..." and ending with the definition 
of ASCII case-insensitive matching (ie. the end of the section).  I 
suggest this gets added to the new section 2.2, probably initially just 
before "Case folding in Unicode has a number of side-effects...", though 
we'd need to make edits later so that it fits well.  This brings the 
explanatory information together into one place.

if you are happy with this proposal, i can supply a file with the 
changes already made.  What do you think?

i'll hold on to my further comments until we reach an agreement here.

ri

Received on Monday, 11 May 2015 12:56:03 UTC