[web-annotation] white space normalisation

r12a has just created a new issue for 
https://github.com/w3c/web-annotation:

== white space normalisation ==
[raised by r12a, not yet discussed by the i18n WG]

4.2.4 Text Quote Selector
https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/WD-annotation-model-20160331/#text-quote-selector

> unnecessary whitespace should be normalized

Who decides what 'unnecessary' and 'whitespace' are? Should it be 
defined in the spec? 

For example, does it include normalisation of zero-width space when 
used with SE Asian languages?  Does it make an exception for Thai and 
similar scripts, which use multiple spaces to identify sentence breaks
 rather than full stops? Does it take into account the normalisation 
rules for line breaks in Chinese and Japanese, or simply convert line 
breaks to spaces?  etc.


Please view or discuss this issue at 
https://github.com/w3c/web-annotation/issues/221 using your GitHub 
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Received on Tuesday, 17 May 2016 12:57:34 UTC