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Re: [EAI] Rechartering

John C Klensin <klensin@jck.com> Fri, 24 July 2009 08:58 UTC

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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:57:45 -0400
From: John C Klensin <klensin@jck.com>
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--On Friday, July 24, 2009 04:48 +0000 Shawn Steele
<Shawn.Steele@microsoft.com> wrote:

>...
> I think it would be "safest" if the IETF RFCs were updated to
> standards first, then the Chinese standards follow those,
> however I don't believe that'll happen in practice.  Then the
> IETF will have to choose to either just turn the experimental
> RFCs into real standards with minimal changes to conform to
> the defacto Chinese standard, or to deviate from the Chinese
> standard and break what might already be implimented.

I would state your second sentence very differently, but "yes".
Note that the normalization question is an example here ... NFC
is almost irrelevant for Chinese characters because there are no
combining forms, but very important for scripts in which
combining characters are used and precomposed alternatives are
common.

     john

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