James Cloos wrote:
"Felix" == Felix Sasaki <fsasaki@w3.org> writes:
Shouldn't the normative reference be to the UCS (ISO 10646) rather than to Unicode? The Universal Character Set is the international standard.
Felix> http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-charmod-20050215/#sec-RefUnicode Felix> http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-charmod-20050215/#C062
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."
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....
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