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[Felix Sasaki]

James Cloos wrote:
>>>>>> "Felix" == Felix Sasaki <fsasaki at w3.org> writes:
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>>> Shouldn't the normative reference be to the UCS (ISO 10646) rather than
>>> to Unicode?  The Universal Character Set is the international standard.
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> Felix> http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-charmod-20050215/#sec-RefUnicode
> Felix> http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-charmod-20050215/#C062
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> Felix> "Since specifications in general need both a definition for their
> Felix> characters and the semantics associated with these characters,
> Felix> specifications SHOULD include a reference to the Unicode Standard,
> Felix> whether or not they include a reference to ISO/IEC 10646."
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> I was coming from an IETF POV rather than a W3C POV, hense the feeling
> that the ISO should be prefered over the industry org for normative
> references....
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not sure if this is a question of POVs - it probably depends on what 
information you want to point people to. Both Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 
provide the same code points, but Unicode provides alsoadditional 
semantics useful for implementers. See the first link above.

Felix