Re: [idn] a few more comments on the last call documents

[Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>]

At 12:05 02/02/12 +0100, Kent Karlsson wrote:
>Some smaller comments (most, but not all, editorial):

>stringprep:
>   clause 1.1: "aepfel" is a *fallback* for "辰pfel", they are not equivalent
>         at all.  They sometimes (only sometimes) collate the same in German.
>         (One could argue that combining diaeresis and combining latin small
>         letter e are "more equivalent" (than the given example); but small
>         letter e as a diacritic above has fallen out of use.)

This is definitely true. Some more details:

The text says

     "aepfel" vs. "<U+00E4>pfel.com"

thus equating apples with oranges. It should either be

     "aepfel.com vs. <U+00E4>pfel.com"

or it should be

     "Aepfel" vs. "<U+00C4>pfel"

(nouns are always written in upper case in German).


Regards,    Martin.