Re: Newsgroup names and Unicode, attempt 3

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From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jul 03 2001 - 04:45:22 CDT


In <20010702150927.H76346@demon.net> "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net> writes:

>sommar@kairos.kairos.algonet.se said:
>>> 1. Whether to require NFKC normalization regardless (my vote is that we do)
>> Mine too.

>I'm going to reverse my opinion on this.

>Reading Unicode, chapter 2, again, I see:

> Identifying one character as a compatibility variant of another
> character implies that generally the first can be remapped to the
> other without the loss of any information other than formatting.

Well that now makes it

Russ NFC (NFKC at agency's discretion)
Clive NFKC
Charles NFKC
Erland NFKC

So we badly need to hear further opinions.

>They are there to be compatible with other character sets, not to provide
>new characters. As such, we do *not* want them in newsgroup names (which
>in this context are a brand new namespace).

>So I accept that we change the NFC-invariant requirement to NFKC-invariant.

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