Re: Rough Draft of Robust Anchoring: the RangeFinder API

I was the one who suggested "asciiFolding" to Doug.

I wonder if unicode normalization should be implied rather than explicit. I
am not a unicode expert but I thought normalization did not change the
glyph, only the byte representation. If that's the case, maybe it's not
necessary to expose that in the API.

Any suggestions on how to handle this for non-latin script are very
helpful! Thank you!

On Wed Feb 25 2015 at 12:21:06 AM Kanai, Takeshi <Takeshi.Kanai@jp.sony.com>
wrote:

> Hi Doug,
>
> I'm afraid that the definition of asciiFolding is not clear enough.
> Japanese characters are non-Latin characters, but I don't think it is
> possible to make a map which points to Latin characters.
>
> I assume that what we would like to do with this attribute is so called
> "canonical search" or "canonical matching".
> If so, what the attribute calls for is to apply NFC (Unicode Normalization
> Form C [1]) first and use the map defined in Unicode Collation Algorithm
> [1], for example. I don't think it is necessary to write down the precise
> algorithm into the document, but I would like to make sure whether the
> method above meets the intention of the attribute or not.
>
> [1] Unicode Normalization Forms
> http://unicode.org/reports/tr15/
>
> [2] Unicode Collation Algorithm
> http://unicode.org/reports/tr10/
>
>
> Thanks,
> Takeshi Kanai
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Schepers [mailto:schepers@w3.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 2:48 PM
> To: W3C Public Annotation List
> Subject: Re: Rough Draft of Robust Anchoring: the RangeFinder API
>
> Hi, folks–
>
> Just a quick note. Rob asked me to move this file, to keep the
> deliverables organized. It's now located at:
>
>   http://w3c.github.io/web-annotation/api/rangefinder/
>
> Even this is a temporary location, though... I'll be moving it to
> specs.webplatform.org soon, and adding the annotation capability to it.
>
> Feel free to review, but be aware that the URL is transitory.
>
> Regards–
> –Doug
>
> On 2/24/15 1:33 PM, Doug Schepers wrote:
> > Hi, folks–
> >
> > After talking about Robust Anchoring with many people over the course
> > of the last couple years (!), with encouragement and good criticisms,
> > I've refined my notion of what's needed for a client-side API for
> > Robust Anchoring.
> >
> > I've drawn up a strawman of my current thinking for an API called
> > RangeFinder [1].
> >
> > It's very rough in places, but I'd appreciate any feedback on the spec
> > as it stands. I'd greatly appreciate any thoughts or opinions on it at
> > this stage.
> >
> > I'm not sure it's mature enough for this yet, but at some point, I'd
> > like to engage the research and academic communities and the experts
> > who've published on text search algorithms, to polish this up and make
> > it not quite as embarrassing as it is currently. If anyone knows who
> > we should contact in that regard, please chime in. This is a great
> > opportunity to leverage all that research in the service of Web
> > developers and browsers!
> >
> > [1] http://w3c.github.io/web-annotation/rangefinder-api/
> >
> > Regards–
> > –Doug
> >
>
>
>