Rick McGowan <rick at unicode dot org> wrote: > Please note that the Issues for Public Review have been updated with a > new review item regarding tailoring of normalization. Please see issue > number 7 on this page: > > http://www.unicode.org/review/
This is hardly a formal comment, but "allowing limited tailoring of normalization forms" sounds really really scary to me. This would basically apply the concept of CESU-8 -- which is not an official UTF, but is close enough to cause confusion, and is specified on the Unicode Web site as though it were official -- to normalization forms. There are already four normalization forms, which is probably greater than the number of people outside this mailing list who understand all of them. Is it worthwhile to add more special-purpose variations? > Also, the review period for issues 1, 4, 5, and 6 is quickly approaching, > and these items are expected to be discussed at the next UTC meeting March > 4-7 2003. As a reminder, my paper arguing against the proposed deprecation of Plane 14 language tags is available in PDF and HTML formats: http://home.adelphia.net/~dewell/plane14.pdf http://home.adelphia.net/~dewell/plane14.html As for Issue #6, "Unicode 4.0 Alpha data," there hasn't been much new to review so far. The first Unicode Data.txt file to contain the new character assignments in Unicode 4.0 was posted only a few hours ago! Eleven days might not be much time to check through 1200+ new characters. I will, however, state the obvious by pointing out that the Scripts.txt file (among others) needs to be updated to reflect the new characters. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
