- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:01:23 -0400
- To: Uche Ogbuji <uche@ogbuji.net>
- Cc: Mike Sokolov <sokolov@falutin.net>, Tony Graham <tgraham@mentea.net>, public-microxml@w3.org
Uche Ogbuji scripsit:
> That's an RFC SHOULD, which means use Normalization Form C unless you
> have an absolutely compelling reason not to.
>
> I do wonder why not just strengthen it that little bit to a MUST.
There are still environments in which NFD is preferred, and there are
some encodings which when transformed into Unicode codepoint by codepoint
do not produce NFC, notably Vietnamese and bibliographic encodings.
IMHO, SHOULD is the correct strength of requirement.
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some years ago
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