On Thursday 12 February 2004 06:45 pm, bear wrote:
> > Defining valid identifier syntax such that case folding of
> > (unnormalized) identifier literals should be sufficient.
> >
> > What am I missing?
>
> You're missing all the tools and utilities out there that are
> programmed with the expectation and requirement that they can
> arbitrarily impose or change normalization forms without changing the
> text of the documents they handle.  There is no escaping this; even
> Emacs and Notepad do it.

Ah!  So a broken language (huge tables and complex processing) must be defined
to deal with broken tools which do not write out Unicode data in a canonical
format.

What about creating a tool which reads bizarre Unicode and writes it out in a
canonical format?  Then requiring portable Scheme programs to pass through
it?

Sounds like a service to the entire Unicode community.  It could be written in
portable Scheme and serve as a (presumably good) advertisement for the
language.

Don't complexify the implementation, simplify the problem!

$0.02,
-KenD

[No Unicode was normalized in the creation of this missive ;^].