On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 11:07:32AM -0700, Lisa Dusseault wrote: > > On Sep 23, 2006, at 2:20 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: > > > > >But as a matter of fact, draft-newman-i18n-comparator-14 doesn't > >define any collations that would actually solve the Unicode NF > >issue, so it's not really clear how this helps CalDAV (except that > >it now uses a framework in which the solution may become available > >in the future). > > > >Maybe the set of initial registrations in <http://tools.ietf.org/ > >html/draft-newman-i18n-comparator-14#section-9> needs to be extended? > > Yes, I agree. That's one of the next steps and why a registry was > created (so we could do it outside the base comparator draft). > > Last week Ted & I were discussing whether one could define a Very > Liberal Comparator (VLC) for general use. It would be handy to have > one which matched e with E, é, è É... and matched o with O, ø, ô, and > so on. That would help in calendar searching use cases, e.g. a user > who can't type in accents (or doesn't know how) wants to find the > invitation from André by searching for "andre". It would probably be > useful in many other cross-language or unknown-language situations too. > > Such a comparator would be most useful for exact and substring > matches; I don't know offhand how it would best do ordering so it > might not be as useful for ordering. > > I believe Arnt intends to continue working on this general problem, > for which I'm very grateful, and other contributions would be most > welcome. > > Lisa > http://author.handalak.com/archives/042003/000078 --bill _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf