Re: Regarding the SHOULD for NFC in RDF Literals

(Not a WG response:)

Such SHOULDs also allows forward compatibility, say given "valid
reasons", potential future RDF 1.2 using some new "Normal Form Delta"
(e.g. where two exotic characters are normalized differently) to also
be somewhat valid RDF 1.1.

On 22 September 2013 21:42, Sebastian Hellmann
<hellmann@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I was asking myself another question regarding the "should" in 3.3.
> http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/#section-Graph-Literal
>
> a lexical form, being a Unicode [UNICODE] string, which SHOULD be in Normal
> Form C [NFC],
>
>
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt says regarding SHOULD:
>
> 3. SHOULD   This word, or the adjective "RECOMMENDED", mean that there
>    may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a
>    particular item, but the full implications must be understood and
>    carefully weighed before choosing a different course.
>
>
> I am not sure, what reasons could exist not to require NFC . N-Triples
> doesn't seem to use ASCII any more in its next version. What is the hold up
> to change this to a MUST and write a validation test case?
>
> I am just asking out of curiosity. The topic is complex and the "full
> implications must be understood and carefully weighed before choosing a
> different course" justify a SHOULD as well.
>
> All the best,
> Sebastian
>
>
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