Talk:Canonical equivalence

Canonical equivalence vs compatibility equivalence
I removed the following statement from the article:


 * Two Unicode strings that have the relation of canonical equivalence may sometimes be considered identical, but generally they are not&mdash;the "micro sign" (&micro;) and "greek small letter mu" (&mu;) are similar, for example, but they are not considered strictly identical.

The above would be correct if "canonical" was changed to read "compatible". It belongs on Compatibility equivalence and not on this page, as the "micro sign" and the "greek small letter mu" have the relation of compatibility equivalence, not of canonical equivalence. The whole point of canonical equivalence, as stated in the opening sentence, is that the two strings are considered identical (in every significant respect) in a certain presupposed sense (i.e., the sense of being canonically equivalent, if that's not too circular).


 * -- Oops, things are worse than I thought. I didn't realize that Compatibility equivalence was a redirect to here.  I will have to fix that page. MarkBrooks 19:34, 7 December 2006 (UTC)