Praveen Prakash wrote:
This is the condition of current stage of Malayalam Computing. So I thought it is better to put equivalence than switching to a particular version. If it not possible switching as said by Tim is appreciable. I prefer 5.1 which is future.
The only way we can implement equivalence is by converting to a canoncial form, this is how it is done in every part of MediaWiki. The ability to treat strings as binary, and to compare them byte-by-byte, is essential to the performance of the system.
It may be possible to convert to the Unicode 5.0 form when we generate the edit page for certain browsers, and to convert back to 5.1 when they save the page. But that would be more complicated to develop than to just convert to Unicode 5.1 all the time.
If you say Unicode 5.1 is the best solution for your community, then I'm willing to take your word for that.
-- Tim Starling