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- From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
- To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 11:57:18 -0400 (EDT)
James Clark scripsit:
> > 0E33;THAI CHARACTER SARA AM
>
> That's very strange. SARA AM certainly needs to be allowed in names.
It's a funny story. In earlier versions of Unicode, SARA AM was treated
as canonically equivalent to NIKHAHIT followed by SARA AA; that is,
Unicode-conformant processes were not supposed to distinguish between
them. In the latest version, this equivalence has been downgraded to
a mere compatibility equivalence. As a result, SARA AM has become
a "compatibility character" and as such disallowed by the Appendix B rules.
> > 0EB3;LAO VOWEL SIGN AM
The same story applies here: the VOWEL SIGN AM is now a compatibility
equivalent of NIGGAHITA followed by VOWEL SIGN AA.
In any event, whatever XML worked before has to work now, so I am merely
proposing a statement that THAI CHARACTER SARA AM and LAO VOWEL SIGN
AM *are* legal in XML names, despite their status as Unicode compatibility
characters. In any case their legality in XML *text* is of course not affected.
If anyone thinks something is desperately broken here, please contact
unicode@unicode.org right away.
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