At 04:31 08/05/2002 +0000, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
> then there are existing editors and keyboard drivers that don't generate
> normalized text.
Name them, Keith.
Prove that there AREN'T any..
> > Then explain why you think normalization should be put into every
> > program that _handles_ text, instead of the much smaller set of programs
> > (notably, keyboard interfaces) that _produce_ text.
> I didn't say that.
Then why are you demanding that thousands of Internet programs acquire
Unicode normalization features?
Can you *guarantee* that non-normalised text won't ever get into emails? If
so, then we'll all come to you for compensation when it does :-) If not,
then email software may need the ability to normalise it.
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