Re: [Ltru] Broken folding (was: (editor response) Review of 4646bis-10, sections 1 to 3.4)

John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> Sun, 09 December 2007 05:49 UTC

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Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:49:39 -0500
To: Frank Ellermann <hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Ltru] Broken folding (was: (editor response) Review of 4646bis-10, sections 1 to 3.4)
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Frank Ellermann scripsit:

> 1 - input was Example:<SP>fold<SP>me<CRLF>
> 2 - folded is Example:<SP>fold<CRLF><SP>me<CRLF>
> 3 - output is Example:<SP>foldme<CRLF>
> 
> Your "folding" lost the space here, I see no way to protect it.  
> The folks who created STD 11 etc. knew what they were up to,
> and the whole world knows how STD 11 folding works.

This is quite compelling, and I think we should consider changing it.
There's no backward-compatibility hit for the registry, but there
is a hit for existing parsing code.

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John Cowan              cowan@ccil.org          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
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