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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/3/25 Harald Alvestrand <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:harald@alvestrand.no">harald@alvestrand.no</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Mark Davis wrote:<br>
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You didn't look back far enough, for example: <a href="http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/idna-update/2008-November/003021.html" target="_blank">http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/idna-update/2008-November/003021.html</a><br>
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To that message I got no response from you, agreement or disagreement. As I said in the meeting, I've also heard from others that they were waiting on some of the major issues to settle before speaking up on the context issues. I think we made enough progress in the meeting that now is probably the time for that.<br>
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Note that I disagree with several of the points from that note (not the need to be precise, but I like functions like Previous() much better than pseudovariables like P, and I think the initial ruleset needs to stay in the document after publication).</blockquote>
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I missed replying to your comments in November, but see that the relevant sections were revised in December, so my comments would probably have been moot anyway.</blockquote><div><br>I didn't get any reply from Patrik, so I don't know what changes he made, whether any were in response to my document, which suggestions he incorporated, which he didn't; and any reasoning connected with any of those.<br>
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I will add one other point from the meeting, these rules are complex enough that until we get two independent implementations of the rules (that agree on the results) we cannot have any confidence in them. And because they are crucial to getting correct A-Labels, we need to have confidence in them.<br>
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As part of those implementations, I also would like a test set; the lack of a test set was a major hindrance for me when attempting to reimplement the Unicode Bidi algorithm.</blockquote><div><br>I agree firmly.<br><br></div>
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