Re: [idn] (bias) summary of reordering discussion

[Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>]

At 07:59 01/10/24 +0200, Patrik F$BgM(Btstr$B‹N(B wrote:
>--On 2001-10-24 14.40 +0900 Soobok Lee <lsb@postel.co.kr> wrote:
[Doug Ewell wrote:]

> >> No, let's not assume this, because UTC/WG2 have said repeatedly that
> >> this  will not happen.  I keep saying this, and Soobok keeps ignoring it.
> >
> > What if X->Y is a Case mapping ?
> > You said case folding would happend in the future added script ? Didn't
> > you?

I think he did. But I don't know about any script in the pipeline
that is bicameral (has two cases). (If I'm wrong, please tell me.)
So the chance we get any more bicameral script in Unicode are pretty
low.


>Mappings X-->Y will happen, but, _never_ where X is a codepoint which is
>assigned in an earlier version of the Unicode Spec. X has to be an earlier
>not assigned codepoint.

Yes, that's by design of NFC (and by extension, of NFKC).

Regards,   Martin.