Re: [charmod-norm] Provide descriptions of Unicode case folding

On 8/4/2015 8:02 AM, Phillips, Addison wrote:
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> Agreed, although that makes me wonder how IDNA will handle the 
> addition of lowercase to the Cherokee script.
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Long term, if the majority of text in Cherokee is in the (new) 
lowercase, would it be awkward to force them to use the uppercase for idns?

A./
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> On August 4, 2015, at 6:31 AM, Andrew Sullivan 
> <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 01:02:34PM +0000, aphillips via GitHub wrote:
> > namespaces permit Unicode identifiers. Spec authors need to be aware
> > that, Unicode being what it is, case insensitivity is not a trivial
> > operation.
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> For whatever it's worth, that very difficulty is what led to IDNA2008
> treating upper case as DISALLOWED.  It caused too many problems, and
> there are locale-based differences for some characters (consider the
> case of i and I, and then consider it in Turkic).
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> Best regards,
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> A
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> Andrew Sullivan
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