I18N-ISSUE-425: Normalization and string identity issues ??? [WebVTT]

I18N-ISSUE-425: Normalization and string identity issues ⓟ [WebVTT]

http://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/425

Raised by: Addison Phillips
On product: WebVTT

http://www.w3.org/TR/webvtt1/#webvtt-file-structure 

Various constructs such as 'cue identifier' are described as being:

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...any sequence of one or more characters not containing the substring "-->"...
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This is good, but does leave open the question of whether different Unicode character sequences that represent the same semantic string identifier (see: Charmod-Norm) are considered "the same" or not. As currently written, different UTF-8 byte sequences are considered distinct.

Received on Thursday, 26 February 2015 01:30:11 UTC