Re: 12. Are C1 controls and Unicode non-characters disallowed?

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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Eric Raymond is the Margaret Mead               John Cowan
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          some years ago

Received on Wednesday, 12 September 2012 15:01:55 UTC