Re: I18N and Normalization

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From: Spencer Shepler (shepler@eng.sun.com)
Date: 02/04/00-04:17:40 PM Z


Message-ID: <389B5004.8EC397FB@eng.sun.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 16:17:40 -0600
From: Spencer Shepler <shepler@eng.sun.com>
Subject: Re: I18N and Normalization

RJ Atkinson wrote:
> 
> At 02:44 04-02-00 , Spencer Shepler wrote:
> 
> >A proposal has been made in the area of internationalization
> >that deals with what is referred to as normalization.
> >In short, normalization is a method to remove duplicates
> >or ambiguites that are part of the Unicode Standard.  The
> >normalization methodologies are part of the Unicode 3.0
> >standard (to which the NFSv4 I-D now refers as of the
> >last draft).
> 
> Spencer,
> 
> This raises a couple of questions in my mind.
> 
> - Is the choice of UNICODE over ISO-10646 deliberate ?
> - If yes, why ?
> - If not, might we please consider referencing ISO-10646 instead ?

Sorry for adding to the confusion.  As Mike has pointed out,
with the description of the use of UTF-8, UCS-4 use is implied.

Spencer


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