- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 20:58:53 -0600
- To: Dave Beckett <dave@dajobe.org>
- Cc: public-rdf-dawg-comments@w3.org
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 -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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