Re: Last Call comments on IRI - 3.1 Mapping of IRIs to URIs

Hello Chris,

Many thanks for your comment. I have made it issue why-not-normalize-42
(see http://www.w3.org/International/iri-edit#why-not-normalize-42).

A few ideas on how to deal with it below.

At 22:22 04/08/11 +0200, Chris Lilley wrote:

> Hello ,
>
> > If the IRI is in an Unicode-based character encoding (for example
> > UTF-8 or UTF-16): Do not normalize. Apply Step 2 directly to the
> > encoded Unicode character sequence.
>
> I believe that I understand why this step says 'do not normalize'
> (otherwise, certain Unicode strings couldnever be used in query parts,
> for example).
>
> However, as the two preceding steps say 'normalize' and this step says
> 'do not normalize' the reader could be confused - or perhaps consider it
> an 'obvious error'.
>
> Do not tease the reader like this. Please explain *why* at this stage no
> normalization is performed.

You definitely have a point. But as you have noticed, the explanations
are already given elsewhere in the document. I think there are several
things that can be done:

- capitalize 'NOT', to make clear that this is not an 'obvious error'.
- add a pointer to 5.3 Normalization
  (http://www.w3.org/International/iri-edit/draft-duerst-iri.html#normaliza 
(http://www.w3.org/International/iri-edit/draft-duerst-iri.html#normalization)
- do both of the above

Which one do you prefer? Do you think this is enough, or do you have
some other idea (actual wording preferred)?


Regards,    Martin.