WWW Character Model - 15th Int. Unicode Conf., 1st Sept. 1999
by Martin J. Dürst

Table of contents

• A Character Model for the WWW: Purpose and Status
• Topics
• Increased Integration on the WWW
• W3C Character Model
• Character Model Basics
• Use of UCS as a common reference
• Character Escaping
• XPointers
• String Identity Matching
• String Identity Matching Problems
• String Identity Matching Requirements
• String Identity Matching Choices
• Why Uniform Early Normalization
• Uniform Early Normalization Requirements
• How to do Early Uniform Normalization
• String Indexing
• String Indexing (cont.)
• Characters not suited for markup
• Character encoding in URIs
• Current State of Character Model