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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