[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 13150] Character entity references should produce same result as numeric

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http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13150





------- Comment #14 from ap at webkit.org  2007-03-24 01:00 PDT -------
Talking about characters with singleton decompositions being deprecated, I
agree that there is no formal official provision saying this. However, that
fact that such characters can not appear in any normalized text speaks for
itself. See, for example, the definition of "singleton decomposition" at
<http://safari.oreilly.com/0201700522/idd1e35240>.

I am not completely sure what you are suggesting for this bug. Should we return
to the HTML mapping for ⟩ and ⟨? Then they won't render with default
OS X fonts, and any text using them would become denormalized. Neither is a
positive outcome. And one can even argue that we do not violate the HTML spec
by changing the mapping, see <http://www.unicode.org/faq/char_combmark.html#8>.
So, I do not think that we are going to change this back.

Your comment has some interesting ideas about in-memory processing. It would be
really great if you could verify those against
<http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod-norm/>, and file separate bugs (preferably with
tests) for cases where we do not conform.


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