- From: Martin J. Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 14:46:09 +0900
- To: ietf-charsets@ISI.EDU
Dear CHARSET Experts, The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C, http://www.w3.org) has just released the following Working Draft: Requirements for String Identity Matching and String Indexing World Wide Web Consortium Working Draft 10-July-1998 http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-charreq Due to the fact that ISO 10646/Unicode encompases a large number of legacy encodings, it inherited some duplicate encodings, the most relevant of which are known under the keywords precomposed vs. decomposed (for accented characters). With increased integration of components on the Internet and the WWW, such duplicates and similar things are more and more becomming a problem. The I18N WG of the W3C was requested by other W3C WGs to attack it. Because there are many data exchanges between the WWW and the other parts of the Internet (e.g. when an FTP URI is transported in an HTML document and then results in some FTP protocol action), it is highly desirable to have the same solution used very widely. To allow this, the W3C I18N WG has as a first step produced a requirements document. We would greatly welcome any kind of comments or feedback from the IETF community on the abovementionned document. Related to this is PROPOSED DRAFT Unicode Technical Report #15, by Mark Davis (mark@unicode.org), on Unicode Composition. Again, any comments are welcome. Regards, Martin. --Boundary (ID uEbHHWxWEwCKT9wM3evJ5w)
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