Re: Merging combining classes, was: New contribution N2676

From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Wed Oct 29 2003 - 16:14:28 CST


Peter Kirk scripsit:

> Is this actually a conformance requirement? I thought I understood the
> following: A rendering engine which fails to render canonical
> equivalents identically, or fails to render certain orders sensibly, is
> not doing what the Unicode standard tells it that it must do. But it is
> not technically non-conformant because the statement that it must render
> canonical equivalents identically is not in a conformance clause. This
> implies that software producers who produce rendering engines which are
> deficient in this way can still claim conformance to Unicode. This is an
> ambiguity which, in my opinion, should be resolved in a future edition
> of the standard.

C9 says:

A process shall not assume that the interpretations of two canonical-equivalent
character sequences are distinct.

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