Theodore wrote: > What is going to be done about the confusion generated from > having multiple ways to encode the same character? > > For example, for filenames, OSX will encode an accented Roman > letter one way, while for filenames Windows will encode it the > other way. These kind of confusions are totally expected, if > Unicode will allow more than one way to encode the same > character.
Perhaps a stray newsfeed routed via Alpha Centauri? This is *very* old news, indeed. > > This means that matching algorithm's won't work, because the > characters are different! > > Will there be some kind of recommendation of which to avoid? > Will the Unicode consortium make a standard to say that one of > these encodings is strongly not recommended, and in fact > depreciated? UAX #15: Unicode Normalization Forms http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr15/ And it is up to an implementation to specify which normalization form it uses. By the way, we don't depreciate Unicode encodings -- we appreciate them. ;-) > And what about the OS that uses this encoding? How will the > Unicode consortium make the newly-offending OS change it's ways? It isn't offending, and the Unicode Consortium won't. --Ken
