Universal Character Names, v2

Fri Nov 29 05:15:00 GMT 2002

On 2002年11月28日, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> ... which I disagree with. I am rejecting this patch until you
> implement support for Unicode as she is spoke, which means UAX#15
> including normalization, not whatever nonsense is in the C and C++
> standards.

Again, the C and C++ standards do not use Unicode, they use ISO/IEC 10646. 
UAX#15 and normalization is not part of ISO/IEC 10646. I doubt a change
in the normative reference would be considered appropriate here (i.e.,
that there would be considered to be a defect in the languages) when
there's an ISO standard available, although the ISO/IEC directives do
permit normative references to other documents in some cases:
 In principle, the referenced documents shall be documents published by 
 ISO and/or IEC. Documents published by other bodies may be referred 
 to in a normative manner provided that
 a) the referenced document is recognized by the ISO and/or IEC
 committee concerned as having wide acceptance and authoritative status 
 as well as being publicly available,
 b) the ISO and/or IEC committee concerned has obtained the agreement 
 of the authors or publishers (where known) of the referenced document 
 to its inclusion and to its being made available as required - the 
 authors or publishers will be expected to make available such 
 documents on request,
 c) the authors or publishers (where known) have also agreed to inform 
 the ISO and/or IEC committee concerned of their intention to revise 
 the referenced document and of the points the revision will concern, 
 and
 d) the ISO and/or IEC committee concerned undertakes to review the 
 situation in the light of any changes in the referenced document.
-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk