> >So it's the absence of stability which would make impossible this > >rearrangement of normalization forms... > > Canonical equivalence is unaffected if combining classes are rearranged, > though not if they are split or joined. It is only the normalised forms > of strings which may be changed. So this is no argument against > rearranging combining classes.
Note that I did not want to speak about the relative order of combining classes, but to the existence of canonical decompositions or composition exclusions, and that's where we were speaking when comparing the merit of composed and decomposed forms for compressability. The most important part of the stability policy is the one that recognizes that any two strings are or are not canonically equivalent (so splitting or merging classes is denied, as well as adding or changing or removing decompositions of characters already assigned in the UCD). It is this part of the policy that allows rearrangement of strings by various normalized forms. Composition exclusions have a lower impact as well as the relative orders of canonical classes, as they don't affect canonical equivalence of strings, and thus won't affect applications based on the Unicode C10 definition; they are important only to allow binary compares of normalized strings. __________________________________________________________________ << ella for Spam Control >> has removed Spam messages and set aside Newsletters for me You can use it too - and it's FREE! http://www.ellaforspam.com
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