- From: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:34:59 -0700
- To: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>, "w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org" <w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org>
At 4:05 PM -0400 6/26/00, John Cowan wrote: >Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote: > >> But this is a gross oversimplification of how users might enter >> non-canonicalized characters in a document. An easy example from >> plane zero is U+00BC (VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER). Microsoft Word >> (and other programs) will insert this into a document as its >> uncanonicalized form; Word will even do it behind your back unless >> you turn off Word's default "helpful" auto-correction feature. U+00BC >> canonicalizes into U+0031 followed by U+2044 followed by U+0034. > >That is a compatibility decomposition, useful for specialized purposes, >but not relevant here. Whoops, you're right. Sorry about that; I'm in the midst of dealing with a protocol that uses form KC instead of C right now. Never mind. --Paul Hoffman, Director --Internet Mail Consortium
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