Re: Unicode NFC - status, and RDF Concepts

Phillips, Addison scripsit:

> The main thrust of the I18N WG's current consensus is that identifiers
> must be compared as if normalized in one of the Unicode canonical
> normalization forms (i.e. NFC or NFD, not NFKC or NFKD). 

I don't understand what "as if normalized" means.  Does that mean that
an identifier comparison routine can assume its inputs are normalized,
or that it must normalize them (non-destructively) before comparing?
The implementation implications couldn't be more different.

> In my opinion, RDF literals fit the definition of "identifiers". 

I can't imagine why you think so.  RDF literals are strings (except
when they are typed as numbers, dates, etc.)

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Received on Monday, 10 October 2011 15:54:51 UTC