John Hudson scripsit:

> What if the request to change the Hebrew combining classes came *from* W3C 
> and/or IETF? I'm not saying that this is likely, but I'm wondering whether 
> they might, in fact, not insist on stability for characters for which 
> normalisation is currently broken anyway?

The normalization is not broken from the point of view of the "stability
community".  They consider it more important that there be a fixed rule,
than what the content of the rule is.  Google for "stare decisis" for
much more on this point of view in general.

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