> On 13 Nov 2016, at 00:03, Benito van der Zander <benito@benibela.de> wrote:
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> Hi,
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>> A feature that prevents people from implementing a spec is a serious
>> problem.
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>> What can we do to change this?
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> Less Unicode everywhere would have been helpful.
The world-wide web consortium takes the term "world-wide" at face value. No spec can get through the W3C process if the spec is not equally useful in every part of the world.
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> By the way, FO 1.7.1 says:
> [Definition] A character is an instance of the Char <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-Char>XML production of [Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition)] <https://www.w3.org/XML/Group/qtspecs/specifications/xpath-functions-31/html/Overview-diff.html#xml>.
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> Perhaps that should be updated to XML 1.1 ?
I think there's a general statement that references to XML 1.0 can be taken as references to XML 1.1 if the implementation chooses.
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Michael Kay