Anyway, these two drafts, freely posted on the IETF, are not standards by themselves. And their scope is also very limited (mostly focusing on StringPrep for IDNA).
2012/12/7 Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> > May be because there are tons of languages not covered in the UCD itself > (the UCD just performs simple casing transforms) > > But this could still be part of the CLDR project, to cover special casing > rules (like the English titlecase rules, or the distinct French rules where > less terms are capitalized) : special casing rules are effectively text > transforms, and better described in LDML than just SpecialCasing.txt which > is too much limited. > > > > 2012/12/7 Doug Ewell <[email protected]> > >> A new IETF Working Group draft, "Mapping characters for precis classes" >> (draft-ietf-precis-mappings-00), proposes a new IANA registry for >> language-dependent case mappings, such as in Turkish and Lithuanian: >> >> http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-precis-mappings-00.txt >> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-precis-mappings-00.html >> >> Can someone explain to me why this new registry is a better solution >> than referring to SpecialCasing.txt in the UCD? >> >> -- >> Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA >> http://www.ewellic.org | @DougEwell >> >> >> >> >
