Re: Editing, cursor motion, and combining characters

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Mark Leisher wrote:

> To support these behaviors, the editing system should store the text in
> decomposed form.  Though it complicates some aspects of the editor design, it
> is useful for other reasons.
Decomposed characters make life hell for search engines. I (and I suspect
most) search engine authors do their best to store them combined as the
canonical form.

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Benjamin Franz

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