Notes From Draft 10

Josh Hoyt josh at janrain.com
Mon Oct 16 22:13:42 UTC 2006


On 10/16/06, Marius Scurtescu <marius at sxip.com> wrote:
> Sorting of unicode strings while not terrible hard it is not trivial
> either. Why bother? The list of signed fields gives an explicit
> ordering, this is good enough IMO.

Sorting by UTF-8-encoded octet sequence is easy.

> Why would be an alphabetically sorted list better?

Just so that there is an obvious one way to do it, so that it's easier
to get right, if I understand David's motivation. It's also easier to
make clear in the spec.

Josh



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