- From: Phillips, Addison <addison@amazon.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:04:14 -0800
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, "public-i18n-core@w3.org" <public-i18n-core@w3.org>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Many programming languages limit the range of characters allowed in variables. See Unicode Standard Annex #31: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr31/ And, yes, you need to apply normalization when comparing text values. Addison Addison Phillips Globalization Architect -- Lab126 Internationalization is not a feature. It is an architecture. > -----Original Message----- > From: public-i18n-core-request@w3.org [mailto:public-i18n-core- > request@w3.org] On Behalf Of L. David Baron > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 9:06 PM > To: public-i18n-core@w3.org; www-style@w3.org > Subject: Re: [CSS21][css3-namespace][css3-page][css3- > selectors][css3-content] Unicode Normalization > > > On Thursday 2009-01-29 16:15 -0800, fantasai wrote: > > page names > > counter names > > namespace prefixes > > These three are all analogous to variable names in a computer > program. Do we really need to apply Unicode normalization to them? > Are there other languages that do similar? > > -David > > -- > L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ > Mozilla Corporation http://www.mozilla.com/
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