- From: Francois Yergeau <FYergeau@alis.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 09:38:30 -0400
- To: "'pat hayes'" <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org, w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org
pat hayes wrote: > You know, Francois, this analogy doesn't help > your case. Obviously using a non-normal form is > not a crime or a sin, and it is not evil,... I apologize if "evil" is seen as too strong a wording. Obviously the mere fact of producing a non-NFC string is not evil. > If most, or > even a substantial fraction, of the world is > 'evil' then it is our job to allow them to be > evil, and the priests can go to hell. NFC was designed especially so that it matches the huge majority of current and predictable usage. Almost any string you can type with most keyboard drivers or transcode from most legacy encodings is automatically NFC. You will not find a substantial fraction of people doing non-NFC as a matter of fact. What you may find is a small but scary minority who will intentionnally do non-NFC to take advantage of holes in software that doesn't pay attention to the issue. Worm, visuses, forgeries, that kind of things. -- François
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