- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 16:14:21 +0100
- To: www-tag@w3.org, Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- CC: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
On Monday, December 2, 2002, 3:42:56 PM, Dan wrote: DC> |In Unicode terminology, this would be properly referred DC> | to as codepoint-for-codepoint comparison. DC> Well, it's only codepoint-for-codepoint after you map DC> the charcters to codepoints; character-for-character DC> is just as proper, no? No. Characters are defined as unicode codepoints. What byte sequences these codepoints become in various encodings is orthogonal, but a given character has a unique unicode codepoint. -- Chris mailto:chris@w3.org
Received on Monday, 2 December 2002 10:14:35 UTC