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Re: All these lonely accents, where do they all come from?

2002-05-09 09:25:08

On 5/9/02 at 8:45 AM +0000, Charles Lindsey wrote:

If Apple's Unicode converter does not normalize, then it is severely broken and should be fixed.

Of course it *can* normalize. The key is that it doesn't *always* normalize, because there are loads of reasonable things you can do with non-normalized text: You may want the conversion to be reversible, you may want to include separators because you are using the text in a word processor that needs those separators, etc. You absolutely cannot expect that all Unicode text floating around is normalized.

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