- From: Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no>
- Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:02:48 +0200
- To: Mark Davis <mark.davis@icu-project.org>
- Cc: Philip Guenther <guenther+collation@sendmail.com>, Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, public-ietf-collation@w3.org
Mark Davis writes: > > First, I was using the word protocol in the draft's sense, which is so > > wide that I had protocol for lunch today ;) > > If so, then it needs to be clear from the text that 'protocol' is > using such a broad sense; examples would help. To me, the present text is clear. Although now that you say it, perhaps it's a little easy to overlook, stuck in the middle of boilerplate. I'll make it more prominent. Thanks. > On the issue of charsets: the biggest problem currently with using > charsets other than Unicode is that common IANA identifiers for > charsets are ambiguous (see > http://www.w3.org/TR/japanese-xml/#ambiguity_of_yen). So two > implementations that they are getting the same results from > comparison may not be because they are using variant mapping tables. You will not catch me touching that ;) I'll fight tooth and nail to keep other charsets out of the present draft. IMO: It must be possible to define collators that use other charsets. But there is absolutely no need to define such collators. Arnt
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