Re: Resolution of open issues: JW24c (DAV:eq)

At 12:15 PM 2/18/02 +0100, Julian Reschke wrote:
>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.

Agreed.

>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).

This sounds plausible to me but I am too ignorant about the fine points of
Unicode to have a well-informed opinion. 

Received on Monday, 18 February 2002 16:05:38 UTC