- From: Jim Davis <jrd3@alum.mit.edu>
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:04:51 -0800
- To: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, "dasl" <www-webdav-dasl@w3.org>
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.
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