Steve Howell writes: > So I'm +1 on the unquoted third option, that canonically > equivalent, but differently encoded, Unicode characters are allowed > yet treated as different. > > Am I stretching the analogy too far?
Yes. By definition, that is nonconformant to the standard. Canonically equivalent sequences are *identical characters* in Unicode. The difference you are talking about is equivalent to the differences among "7", "07", and "0x7" as C numeric literals. They look different, but their semantics is identical in the program. Pragmatically, if you have an editor which normally produces NFD, and another which normally produces NFC, those programs will not be link-compatible under your program, yet both editors will present the user with identical displays. _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
