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Re: [http-auth] Normalization forms in draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-enc

Michael Sweet <msweet@apple.com> Tue, 02 July 2013 12:54 UTC

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Subject: Re: [http-auth] Normalization forms in draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-enc
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RFC 5198?

On 2013-07-02, at 3:59 AM, Yoav Nir <ynir@checkpoint.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> For those of us not so well versed in I18N issues, what do you mean by normalization? 
> 
> Is it just consolidating look-alike code points, like the multiple hyphens that exist in Unicode? 
> Does it also involve removing Arabic and Hebrew points? (I think Paul raised this one) 
> Does it involve removing diacritics?
> Does it involve splitting combined characters (like U+00E6 into 'a' and 'e')?
> Is there a standard we can point to and say "do this before comparing or hashing"?
> 
> Thanks
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> Yoav
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