- From: Keld J|rn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>
- Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 14:30:33 +0200
- To: Jonathan Rosenne <rosenne@NetVision.net.il>, WWW-International List <www-international@w3.org>
Jonathan Rosenne writes: > But there is another problem with internationalized names: UCS defines a > non-unique coding. Some composite characters have at least two valid > representations, the composed character and the base character followed > by diacritics. If there is more than one diacritics, their order is not > defined. The user often has no control over the coding. So before using > a name, it must be brought to a canonical representation. Well, UCS (=ISO/IEC 10646) does not define ambigeous encoding of characters, but Unicode does. Fortunately, HTML is defined in terms of ISO/IEC 10646. Keld
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