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Re: Internationalized CLASS attributes
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To: Jonathan Rosenne <rosenne@NetVision.net.il>, WWW-International List <www-international@w3.org>
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Subject: Re: Internationalized CLASS attributes
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From: keld@dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen)
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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 14:30:33 +0200
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From www-international-request@www10.w3.org Thu Oct 17 08: 30:56 1996
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In-Reply-To: Jonathan Rosenne <rosenne@NetVision.net.il> "Re: Internationalized CLASS attributes" (Oct 17, 7:40)
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Jonathan Rosenne writes:
> But there is another problem with internationalized names: UCS defines a
> non-unique coding. Some composite characters have at least two valid
> representations, the composed character and the base character followed
> by diacritics. If there is more than one diacritics, their order is not
> defined. The user often has no control over the coding. So before using
> a name, it must be brought to a canonical representation.
Well, UCS (=ISO/IEC 10646) does not define ambigeous encoding
of characters, but Unicode does. Fortunately, HTML is defined in
terms of ISO/IEC 10646.
Keld
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