Re: FW: New Public Review Issue: UAX #15

On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 01:02:45 +0900, Mark Davis  
<mark.davis@icu-project.org> wrote:

>
> The corrigendum was passed before 4.1, and incorporated into version  
> 4.1, so the only new material for 5.0 (the next version) is what is in  
> yellow. That being said, the UTC is glad to get feedback on any part of  
> the document, new or old.

Thank you, Mark. That helps. I have currently no comment.

Regards, Felix.

>
> Mark
>
> Felix Sasaki wrote:
>
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>> On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 19:07:32 +0900, Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>  
>> wrote:
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>>>
>>> FYI
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>>
>> I'm currently having a look at this. The main changes concern  
>> versioning,  see section 3  (  
>> http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr15/tr15-26.html#Versioning ).
>>
>> I don't see an issue in section 3.1 "Stability of Normalized Forms"  
>> which  says "A normalized string is guaranteed to be stable: that is,  
>> once  normalized, a string is normalized according to all future  
>> versions of  Unicode.".
>>
>> I don't see an issue in section 3.3 "Guaranteeing Process Stability",   
>> which describes how corrigenda between versions of Unicode should be   
>> handled.
>>
>> Corrigenda 2 and 3 (changes in normalization behavior of the character   
>> U+FB1D HEBREW LETTER YOD WITH HIRIQ, and U+F951 Normalization) are two   
>> example corrigenda which fall under section 3.3.
>>
>> " Corrigendum #5: Normalization Idempotency fixed a problem in the   
>> description of the normalization process for some instances of  
>> particular  sequences. Such instances never occur in meaningful text.".  
>> As a  background to this corrigendum, there is a public review issue   
>> http://www.unicode.org/review/pr-29.html . It proposes the following   
>> change to definition D2:
>>
>> "D2. In any character sequence beginning with a starter S, a character  
>> C  is blocked from S if and only if there is some character B between S  
>> and  C, and either B is a starter or it has the same or higher  
>> combining class  as C."
>> The change is the insertion of "or higher".
>>
>> The description of this corrigendum   
>> (http://www.unicode.org/versions/corrigendum5.html) mentions that  
>> problems  arising from the old definition D2 have no "realistic  
>> scenarios [...] that  would present such problems.".
>>
>> I'm not sure about this corrigendum. I will take a closer look. Let's  
>> talk  about it on a call.
>>
>> Regards, Felix.
>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: unicore-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicore-bounce@unicode.org] On
>>> Behalf Of Rick McGowan
>>> Sent: 14 January 2006 01:03
>>> To: unicode@unicode.org
>>> Subject: New Public Review Issue: UAX #15
>>>
>>> The Unicode Technical Committee has posted a new issue for public  
>>> review  and
>>> comment. Details are on the following web page:
>>>
>>>     http://www.unicode.org/review/
>>>
>>> Review period for the new item closes on January 31, 2005
>>>
>>> Please see the page for links to discussion and relevant documents.
>>> Briefly, the new issue is:
>>>
>>>
>>> Issue #86: UAX #15: Unicode Normalization Forms
>>>
>>> There are no substantive changes in this version of UAX #15. Sections   
>>> were
>>> added to clarify stability and versioning issues, and to make some
>>> formatting changes for Unicode 5.0.
>>>
>>>     http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr15/tr15-26.html
>>>
>>>
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