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[Robert Collins <robert.collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Aaron Bentley <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 11-12-13 01:26 AM, Robert Collins wrote:
>> We could say 'utf8' and leave it at that. Or we could say 'the
>> printable subset of ascii' or some such. I'd just say non
>> whitespace utf8, as strings are easier to deal with, and avoiding
>> whitespace avoids most likely encoding issues.
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> If we're using Unicode identifiers, do we need to specify a
> normalization form (NFC or NFD), or would we impose that on the data
> after receiving it?

http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod-norm/ - NFC. Remember that they are
opaque, so no service ever has a reason to renormalise an identifier.

-Rob