Re: Posted draft of URI comparison finding

Dan Connolly wrote:

> If you have two character sequences, I still think it
> it's proper to speak of comparing them
> character-for-character. It's reasonably clear
> that this gives the same result as mapping
> the character sequence to a codepoint sequence
> and then comparing codepoint-for-codepoint,
> but to speak of comparing character sequences
> codepoint-for-codepoint is a little sloppy, no?

I believe the opposite.  A "character" is a complex bundle of visual and 
linguistic semantics.  A codepoint is a number.  I know how to compare 
numbers. -Tim

Received on Monday, 2 December 2002 12:51:10 UTC