- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 10:43:30 +0200
- To: Andrew Cunningham <andrewc@vicnet.net.au>
- Cc: "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>, public-i18n-core@w3.org, "W3C Style List" <www-style@w3.org>
On Feb 2, 2009, at 17:18, Andrew Cunningham wrote: > On Tue, February 3, 2009 1:42 am, Boris Zbarsky wrote: >> Andrew, forgive my ignorance, but does this mean that normalizing >> everything in the UA at parse-time (and normalizing the content of >> form >> fields that the user types in at typing time, of course) is not in >> fact >> a viable option? > the normalisation of form fields should be determined the web > developer. > Normalisation in some context may violate standards in some > industries. > One taht comes to mind is libraries. Many of the newer integrated > library > management systems will use a web browser as a client for the > cataloguing > modules. Normalising form fields would result in violating the MARC21 > character model. > > If i were working on content in some langauges like igbo, and wanted > to > include tone markers to use as an alternative display of data, its > easier > to work with NFD data and filter tone marks out when applying standard > orthographic views. Surely a MARC21-based system should then use this data representation internally but not leak it to a Web UI for the system. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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