On 5/8/02 at 12:48 AM +0000, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
Please explain exactly where you think unnormalized UTF-8 text
enters the world's computer systems.
1. My e-mail client receives a piece of e-mail in a legacy character set.
2. The user replies to that message.
3. I take the text of the old message and run it through Apple's
Unicode conversion library to convert it to Unicode. I (not knowing
any better) use the default conversion parameters, which results in
text that is not normalized, but rather easily reversible into the
source character set.
4. I take that text and what the user has typed in their reply, UTF-8
encode it, and send it.
pr
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