Re: Normalisation stability, was: Compression through normalization

From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Tue Nov 25 2003 - 14:23:24 EST

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    On 25/11/2003 11:15, John Cowan wrote:

    >Peter Kirk scripsit:
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    >>If receivers are expected to check for normalisation, they are
    >>presumably expected also to normalise
    >>
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    >Not so. An alternative behavior, which is preferred in certain circumstances,
    >is to reject the input, or at least to advise higher layers that the input
    >may be invalid.
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    But this clearly conflicts with the preference in C9: "Ideally, an
    implementation would always interpret two canonical-equivalent character
    sequences identically." 

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