Re: [selectors-api] Selectors API I18N Review...

On Feb 3, 2009, at 15:10, Richard Ishida wrote:

> I didn't have to look hard for a problem. If you install the Tlicho  
> (Tłįchǫ or Dogrib) keyboard on Windows (see a picture athttp://rishida.net/scripts/pickers/tlich 
> o/) and type the name of the language itself, it comes out in NFD.   
> It is also possible to incorrectly order multiple diacritics (ie.  
> not even NFD). You could say that the keyboard *ought* to churn out  
> NFC, but it's too late. People using those keyboards will be  
> producing content that may look different to that created by people  
> using other input methods.


Making existing browsers normalize before string equality checks is  
also too late.

When considering what software to change in a future version, to me it  
seems more sensible to change the software that is less performance- 
critical, is closer to the problem and doesn't depend on wide  
consistent deployment to address the problem for a given Web author.  
That is, it seems more sensible to make the input methods produce  
consistently ordered output. This should be within the realm of  
possibility; after all, producing pre-composed characters with  
European diacritic dead keys is a solved problem.

-- 
Henri Sivonen
hsivonen@iki.fi
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/

Received on Tuesday, 3 February 2009 13:45:23 UTC