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Re: alpha v0.2



At 11:59 00/01/25 +0800, James Seng wrote:
> Andrew Draper wrote:

> > > 2.3 Canonicalization
> > 
> > I don't think there is any disagreement that the protocol will need to use a
> > canonicalisation algorithm (not if we have "must retain case-insensitive
> > comparison for ASCII" as a minimum).  The only question is what should that
> > algorithm be.
> 
> The closest we have now is the Unicode TR-15. But anyone who has attempts to
> do this will have nightmare :( at least i did...

Well, I implemented it, too. There is one suggestion I made to the Unicode
Technical Committee for a slight simplification, but that was rejected
because it leads to less precombined cases. Anyway, not everybody
will have to implement this, and I can't imagine anything much simpler
doing the job.


Regards,   Martin.


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