From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Fri Mar 05 2004 - 16:38:07 EST
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]
On Behalf
> Of Antoine Leca
> Fact is, conformance to Unicode, as specified in the standard, is
something
> of a fuzzy target. So after reading chapter 3 (conformance) and 2.12
(which
> does not enlighted me very much), I reformulate the question as:
>
> - For each version of Windows NT, what is the version of the Unicode
> Character Database the NLS API intents to conform to?
I think conformance is *not* the question you want to ask. It's possible
that WinNT version X (pick some version) could be found to conform to
any and every version of Unicode. But *conformance* does not imply any
requirement to support any particular group of characters added in any
particular version. Remember, a product that does nothing more than
monitoring a stream and ringing a bell when U+0007 is encountered (and
ignoring everything else) is conformant.
> > A similar question could be asked in relation with sorting (but
since I
> cannot figure easily how TUS defines conformance in the area of
sorting,
> particularly some years ago, I cannot figure how to spell out the
question)
The Unicode Standard does not define any conformance requirements in
relation to sorting. The Unicode Consortium defines a *distinct*
standard related to sorting, viz. UTS#10, the Unicode Collation
Algorithm.
Peter
Peter Constable
Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
Microsoft Windows Division
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