Re: Results of public Review Issues (in particular #121)

From: Markus Scherer (markus.icu@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Aug 07 2010 - 13:31:03 CDT

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    On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Kenneth Whistler <kenw@sybase.com> wrote:

    > > What I now would like to know is what became of the UTC "tentative
    > > preference for option #2", and where this is documented,
    >
    > Unicode 5.2, Chapter 3:
    >
    > http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.2.0/ch03.pdf
    >
    > pp. 94 - 95, Subsection, "Constraints on Conversion Processes".
    >
    > > and if
    > > possible, which other programming languages and libraries use or don't
    > > use this preference.
    >
    > Somebody else needs to step up to the plate on that one.
    >

    ICU converters, for example, implement option #2. It took a little extra
    code to do it consistently, but it seems to yield the best output.

    markus

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