Re: Stability vs. correcting errors

From: John Cowan (cowan@mercury.ccil.org)
Date: Fri Dec 26 2003 - 23:34:16 EST

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Doug Ewell scripsit:

> > The IETF strongly encourages the Unicode Consortium to keep the size
> > and rate of change of the correction list to an absolute minimum,
>
> Obviously the issue of stability vs. "correctness" is not as
> black-and-white as some may think.

The above text is merely a polite way of saying "Don't change the @*$#ing
normalizations any more!"

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