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The W3C Internationalization Working Group has published two new working drafts, Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Fundamentals and Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Normalization. These refactor and replace the previous single spec draft Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0.
The fundamentals draft is in last call. "This Architectural Specification provides authors of specifications, software developers, and content developers with a common reference for interoperable text manipulation on the World Wide Web, building on the Universal Character Set, defined jointly by the Unicode Standard and ISO/IEC 10646. Topics addressed include use of the terms 'character', 'encoding' and 'string', a reference processing model, choice and identification of character encodings, character escaping, string indexing, and URI conventions."
The Normalization spec "provides authors of specifications, software developers, and content developers with a common reference for early uniform normalization and string identity matching to improve interoperable text manipulation on the World Wide Web."