RE: [apps-discuss] Fwd: FW: New Version Notification for draft-kerwin-file-scheme-13.txt

> Anyways, in general normalizing to NFC does less damage than any other
> normalization, and not normalizing can cause weird things, but then, so can
> normalizing.

Yes, I completely agree that NFC is the right choice and does the least harm. For wire-format exchange the ideal would be for NFC to be the rule.

file:// is a little different, since it is mainly trying to represent the characters/byte codes the file system is using while still trying to be recognizable to the user.  Maybe it doesn't matter, though: most user-agents provide a dialog box, auto-complete, or some other mechanism. Perhaps the rule is "NFC for the URI, file system/user agent provides re-normalization or normalization-independent selection for file systems that use a different normalization form, de-normalized files use escapes (== don't do that)"?

Addison

Received on Tuesday, 9 December 2014 22:57:44 UTC