Nameprep and NFKC

[John C Klensin]

--On Monday, October 18, 2010 8:59 AM -0400 Andrew Sullivan
<ajs at shinkuro.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 09:53:52AM -0400, John C Klensin wrote:
>> In this particular case, I can't imagine any reasonable
>> behavior other than to reject the string, presumably with an
>> error condition, 
> 
> But that's this _particular_ case.  In an actual application,
> the reasonable thing to do would be to kick the string back up
> to the application's mapping layer, which either can put the
> string into NFC or not.  But the error handling probably lives
> up there.  (This is another reason why the RFC can read as it
> does: the _protocol_ requires certain things, but it doesn't
> constrain how things outside the protocol layer behave.)

Exactly.   I was referring to the behavior of the demo/test
program only.

    john