Resolution of open issues: JW24c (DAV:eq)

The following [1] issue was raised in 2000:

"How do string equality and language tag interact. Cross-language comparison
should work at least when the two languages are dialects, e.g. en-us vs
en-uk."

I think the only workable answer is that string equality does NOT depend on
languages, therefore two strings are equal if they are equal
character-by-character.

We MAY want to think about saying something about Unicode normalization in
this context (for instance allowing server to treat different Unicode
normalization forms as equal).

Feedback appreciated.

Julian

[1]
http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-reschke-webdav-search-latest.html#rfc
.issue.JW24c
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod/#sec-IdentityMatching

Received on Monday, 18 February 2002 06:16:19 UTC