Re: Universal Character Names, v2

["Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>]

On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> ... which I disagree with.  I am rejecting this patch until you
> implement support for Unicode as she is spoke, which means UAX#15
> including normalization, not whatever nonsense is in the C and C++
> standards.

Again, the C and C++ standards do not use Unicode, they use ISO/IEC 10646.  
UAX#15 and normalization is not part of ISO/IEC 10646.  I doubt a change
in the normative reference would be considered appropriate here (i.e.,
that there would be considered to be a defect in the languages) when
there's an ISO standard available, although the ISO/IEC directives do
permit normative references to other documents in some cases:

    In principle, the referenced documents shall be documents published by 
    ISO and/or IEC.  Documents published by other bodies may be referred 
    to in a normative manner provided that

    a) the referenced document is recognized by the ISO and/or IEC
    committee concerned as having wide acceptance and authoritative status 
    as well as being publicly available,

    b) the ISO and/or IEC committee concerned has obtained the agreement 
    of the authors or publishers (where known) of the referenced document 
    to its inclusion and to its being made available as required - the 
    authors or publishers will be expected to make available such 
    documents on request,

    c) the authors or publishers (where known) have also agreed to inform 
    the ISO and/or IEC committee concerned of their intention to revise 
    the referenced document and of the points the revision will concern, 
    and

    d) the ISO and/or IEC committee concerned undertakes to review the 
    situation in the light of any changes in the referenced document.

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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk