Re: Minutes of F2F

At 10:03 PM 3/6/02 +0000, Brian McBride wrote:
>Hi Folks,
>
>I've added the decisions made to the face to face page at:
>
>   http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/RDFCore/20020225-f2f/
>
>and notes from the i18n meeting.

>Notes from I18N/RDFCore Meeting
>
>I18N recommend that literals (strings) in the RDF graph be fully 
>normalised UNICODE and should start with a combining character.

Shouldn't that be *NOT* start with a combining character?

>I18N suggests that comparison of URI's behaves as if they are UNICODE 
>normalised, but not does require that such normalization is performed.

>I18N agree that RDFCore requires a transitive string comparison algorithm 
>and requests that the specs do not mislead application developers into 
>thinking they are not permitted to implement a more flexible string 
>matching algorithm, e.g. on queries.

>I18N note that the strings defining languages occasionally change and 
>suggests that RDFCore may choose to use URI's to name languages. RDFCore 
>agree to consider.

>I18N found the proposed solution of literals being a pair of a string and 
>a language tag acceptable.

>I18N agree that n-triples is an internal tool for the WG and developers 
>and is not subject to the same internationization concerns of more public 
>syntaxes. I18N request that the specs make this limited role for n-triples 
>clear.

>There was some dicussion of RDFCore concerns of lack of implementation of 
>charmod and other specs delaying completion of RDFCore.

I think there was also a concern that the relevant I18N specs would not be 
at the appropriate recommendation status when the RDF specs are ready to 
move forward.


#g



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Received on Thursday, 7 March 2002 10:47:34 UTC