Re: SPARQL and Unicode versions

On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 12:38 -0800, Dave Beckett wrote:
> SPARQL refers to:
> 
> [[
>   [UNICODE]
>     The Unicode Standard, Version 4. ISBN 0-321-18578-1, as updated from
>   time to time by the publication of new versions. The latest version of
>   Unicode and additional information on versions of the standard and of
>   the Unicode Character Database is available at
>   http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/versions/.
> 
> ]]
> 
> which cites a moving target.  Please define SPARQL in terms of a
> particular version of Unicode only, and no other.  Otherwise if or when
> this Unicode consortium makes some incompatible changes, all existing
> implementations become invalid.

How so? How is conformance to SPARQL sensitive to changes in Unicode?


> EricP said it was because of http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod/#sec-RefUnicode
> 
> which seems to go counter to stable implementations.
> 
> Maybe you can alter the wording so that implementing Unicode 4 alone is
> sufficient and using any later versions is not required.
> 
> The charmod refernence mostly says this in that the latter is a MAY and
> the former is needed "if it is desired that characters allocated after a
> specification is published are usable with that specification".  Which
> may not be a desire.
> 
> Dave
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