Re: Last Call comments on IRI - 3.1 Mapping of IRIs to URIs

Hello Chris,

I haven't heard from you on which way you would prefer to address
the issue you brought up. I have decided to address it by adding
"(see Section 5.3 for details)", so that Variant C) now reads:

 >>>>>>>>
Variant C) If the IRI is in an Unicode-based character encoding
    (for example UTF-8 or UTF-16): Do not normalize (see Section
    5.3 for details).  Apply Step 2 directly to the encoded Unicode
    character sequence.
 >>>>>>>>

I'm moving this issue to 'tentatively closed', and plan to move
it to 'closed' very soon. If you don't agree with how I have
addressed the issue, please reply asap, with actual text.

Regards,    Martin.


At 14:50 04/08/18 +0900, Martin Duerst wrote:

>Hello Chris,
>
>Many thanks for your comment. I have made it issue why-not-normalize-42
>(see http://www.w3.org/International/iri-edit#why-not-normalize-42).
>
>A few ideas on how to deal with it below.
>
>At 22:22 04/08/11 +0200, Chris Lilley wrote:
>
>>Hello ,
>>
>> > If the IRI is in an Unicode-based character encoding (for example
>> > UTF-8 or UTF-16): Do not normalize. Apply Step 2 directly to the
>> > encoded Unicode character sequence.
>>
>>I believe that I understand why this step says 'do not normalize'
>>(otherwise, certain Unicode strings couldnever be used in query parts,
>>for example).
>>
>>However, as the two preceding steps say 'normalize' and this step says
>>'do not normalize' the reader could be confused - or perhaps consider it
>>an 'obvious error'.
>>
>>Do not tease the reader like this. Please explain *why* at this stage no
>>normalization is performed.
>
>You definitely have a point. But as you have noticed, the explanations
>are already given elsewhere in the document. I think there are several
>things that can be done:
>
>- capitalize 'NOT', to make clear that this is not an 'obvious error'.
>- add a pointer to 5.3 Normalization
> 
>(http://www.w3.org/International/iri-edit/draft-duerst-iri.html#normaliza 
>(http://www.w3.org/International/iri-edit/draft-duerst-iri.html#normalization)
>- do both of the above
>
>Which one do you prefer? Do you think this is enough, or do you have
>some other idea (actual wording preferred)?
>
>
>Regards,    Martin.

Received on Thursday, 16 September 2004 06:12:27 UTC