- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:48:24 +0200
- To: "Richard Ishida" <ishida@w3.org>
- Cc: <www-international@w3.org>
* Richard Ishida wrote: >http://www.w3.org/TR/charreq/ Two things are identical if you cannot tell them apart. Two things are merely equivalent in some context if the differences between them are of no concern in that context. The document confuses these terms as should be apparent from awkward phrases like "The string identity matching specification shall not treat as equivalent"; clearly a specification defining *identity* would treat things as *identical*, not as /equiva- lent/. The definition "Two strings match as identical if they contain no user- identifiable distinctions" is inherently incorrect. If there is any difference at all between two strings then users can necessarily identi- fy them. I find this terminological confusion harmful and would ask the Working Group to either change or withdraw the document. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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