Subject: Re: Mystery abbrevations in draft 9

From: Paul Hoffman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 11:05:33 -0700

At 9:56 AM -0700 7/6/05, Walter Underwood wrote:
>In 4.2.6 atom:id, the last sentence is:
>
>     o Ensure that all components of the IRI are appropriately character-
>       normalized, e.g. by using NFC or NFKC.
>
>"NFC" and "NFKC" need to be defined, with a reference to the Unicode spec.

Spelling out the abbreviations as "Unicode Normalization Form C" and 
"Unicode Normalization Form KC" is fine; referencing them is *not*. A 
reference to the Unicode Standard inherently points to a particular 
version, and the tables used for NFC and NFKC change from version to 
version.

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