What happens if Unicode 3.3 defines a new precomposed character (such as q-tilde)? Does this mean that all existing documents might become retrospectively unnormalised and therefore invalid?
At 13:21 20/02/02 -0500, John Cowan wrote: >The W3C CharMod wants receivers to check normalization and >reject unnormalized documents, *not* to normalize input. Silently >normalizing input can conceal the existence of a security-related >spoof that is NFC-equivalent to a genuine document. >It is essentially the same reason that broken HTML or broken UTF-8 >should not be silently repaired. >
