- From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:42:59 +0900
- To: Jeremy Carroll <jeremy@topquadrant.com>
- CC: www-international@w3.org, RDF Working Group WG <public-rdf-wg@w3.org>
Hello Jeremy, Great to hear from you again after a long time! On 2011/10/10 14:19, Jeremy Carroll wrote: > > Several years ago, I was an editor of RDF Concepts and we included the > following: > http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-concepts-20040210/ > [[ > The string in both plain and typed literals is recommended to be in > Unicode Normal Form C [NFC]. This is motivated by [CHARMOD] particularly > section 4 Early Uniform Normalization. > ]] > and > [[ > All literals have a lexical form being a Unicode [UNICODE] string, which > SHOULD be in Normal Form C [NFC]. > ]] > > As we review this document, it has been noted that the CHARMOD reference > is out-of-date, the reference to, section 4 of > http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-charmod-20030822/#sec-Normalization > has been replaced by the fairly different > http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod-norm/#sec-EarlyUniformNormalization > and that WD seems to have been abandoned, and no consensus reached. > > What advice, if any, do I18N experts offer the RDF WG, updating the > advice of 2002? I'd recommend to keep the text the same, and just tweak or remove the reference. I unfortunately didn't have enough time to follow changes in charmod-norm in detail, but I hope to be able to catch up with more active members of the WG next week at the Internationalization and Unicode Conference in San Jose. Regards, Martin.
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