- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 11:09:18 +1100
- To: "Phillips, Addison" <addison@lab126.com>
- Cc: "public-tt@w3.org" <public-tt@w3.org>, "public-i18n-core@w3.org" <public-i18n-core@w3.org>
Registered in https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=28259 for feedback by TextTracks CG. Best Regards, Silvia. On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 7:25 AM, Phillips, Addison <addison@lab126.com> wrote: > I18N comment: https://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/425 > > http://www.w3.org/TR/webvtt1/#webvtt-file-structure > > Various constructs such as 'cue identifier' are described as being: > > -- > ...any sequence of one or more characters not containing the substring "-->"... > -- > > The document makes understood that this is a sequence of Unicode characters. However, it leaves open the question of whether different Unicode character sequences that represent the same semantic string identifier (see: Charmod [1] and Charmod-Norm [2]) are considered "the same" or not. As currently written, different UTF-8 byte sequences are considered distinct. > > We would suggest that identifiers that use distinct code point sequences are considered distinct (that is, that you are what we call a "non-normalizing Specification"), which suggests that you include at least a health warning about the dangers of using different character sequences. > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod/ > [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod-norm/ > Particularly: http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod-norm/#formal-language and http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod-norm/#non-normalizing > > === > > Addison Phillips > Globalization Architect (Amazon Lab126) > Chair (W3C I18N WG) > > Internationalization is not a feature. > It is an architecture. >
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