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Title : Normalization of Internationalized Identifiers
Author(s) : M. Duerst
Filename : draft-duerst-i18n-norm-00.txt
Pages : 12
Date : 1997-07-30

The Universal Character Set (UCS) makes it possible to extend the
repertoire of characters used in non-local identifiers beyond US-
ASCII. The UCS contains a large overall number of characters, many
codepoints for backwards compatibility, and various mechanisms to
cope with the features of the writing systems of the world. All this
together can lead to ambiguities in representation. Such ambiguities
are not a problem when representing running text. Therefore existing
standards have only defined equivalences. For the use in identi-
fiers, which are compared using their binary representation, this is
not sufficient. This document defines a normalization algorithm and
gives usage guidelines to avoid such ambiguities.

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