RE: [idn] Comments on IDNA/stringprep/nameprep

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>]

At 7:02 PM +0100 2/13/02, Kent Karlsson wrote:
>  > The Unicode consoritium debated making the canonical decomposition
>>  from <gg> to <g><g> for a long time. The deciding feedback was from
>>  the Korean national body at the Seoul SC2/WG2 meeting, where they said
>>  it should not be done; that it was akin to canonically decomposing "w"
>>  to "vv".
>
>With all due respect, I don't think that is the correct analysis.

It seems a tad inappropriate for the IETF to consider not only going 
against the Unicode standard but *also* against the desires of the 
Korean national body to ISO because of the desires of a small number 
of people who are neither representatives of standards bodies or the 
national governments that are most interested in the script in 
question.


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