Re: [CSS21][css3-namespace][css3-page][css3-selectors][css3-content] Unicode Normalization

On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:13:07 +0100, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
> One question I have is whether this issue would be resolved if a UA  
> performed parse-time normalization on everything (JS, CSS, XML, HTML).  
> That wouldn't completely help JS because you can build up strings  
> codepoint-by-codepoint but that also lets you create invalid UTF-16  
> strings, so I'm not sure it's worth worrying about right now.

HTML & XML character references and CSS character escapes would also allow  
for the same character to be represented in different forms as far as I  
can tell. (Though not quite as extreme as in JS, still basically the same  
"issue".) Leaving that alone and only doing this parse-time seems fine  
though. However, in my opinion it has not really been justified that it is  
necessary in the first place.

(And then there's the bits Martin pointed out.)


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Received on Monday, 2 February 2009 11:52:03 UTC