From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jul 03 2001 - 04:54:14 CDT
In <ylae2mocr0.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>Normally, I'd agree, but this case is special because it involves
>canonicalization processes and a shared resource that has to be findable
>by anyone interested in the topic. If we ban anything not in NFKC,
>we're giving an implementation permission to canonicalize to NFKC. If we
>then later change that specification, there will be a bunch of deployed
>readers that can't deal with anything not in NFKC in newsgroup names, and
>given the way Usenet newsgroup creation works, this will be sufficient
>reason to not create such newsgroups (creating a self-perpetuating circle
>that can persist for essentially forever).
I think I could accept that situation, because I cannot conceive of any
reason why a non-NFKC-invariant character would ever be needed.
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