Re: Identifiers

From: root (james@rf.net)
Date: Sun Apr 15 2001 - 23:00:05 EDT


As far as I know, the various language committees have
settled on Normalization Form C for identifiers. ECMAscript (nee
LiveScript,
then JavaScript) being 1 example.

Perl will likely do the same.

James.

Martin Duerst wrote:
...
> Of course, normalization (preferably NFC and/or NFKC, to stay in
> line with the W3C and the IETF) can help quite a bit.
> NFC only eliminates things that are supposed to look exactly
> the same. NFKC eliminates quite a bit more than that.
>
> Regards, Martin.
>
> At 20:10 01/04/15 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
...
> >Is it sufficient to mandate that all such identifiers MUST be KC- or
> >KD-normalized? Does this guarantee print-and-enter round-trip
> >compatibility?



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