>> But normative explicitly does *not* mean unchangeable.
>
>It quite specifically means that others can use it and reference it.
Anyone
>knows you cannot build a house on a shifting foundation, which is why
making
>something "normative" should be something reserved for things that one is
>*not* going to change.
Sorry, but check out the text on p73, TUS 3.0:
<quote emphasis=original>
The term normative when applied to a character property does *not* mean
that the value of the property will never change. Corrections and
extensions to the standard in the future may require minor changes to
normative values, even though the Unicode Technical Committee strives to
minimize such changes.
</quote>
It is true that *some* normative properties (and some informative
properties, e.g. Unicode 1.0 Name) are unchangeable, but it is not true
that *all* are. Case in point, the combining classes underwent a lot of
changes from TUS 2.1.9 to 3.0, and consideration is being given to further
changes (though decidedly less drastic).
- Peter
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