Normalization Form KC considered harmful

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I note that based on the current beta 3.0 mappings, text using
only the ASCII subset of UTF-8 is not in Normalization Form KC.

The ASCII characters 5E CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT, 5F LOW LINE, 60 GRAVE ACCENT
are all compatibility characters, and Normalization Form KC will
change them into sequences of SPACE plus a combining character.
This is intolerable for Linux or anyone else who depends on
ASCII-compatibility.

Either these compatibility decompositions should be removed,
or Normalization Form KC should be avoided.

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	John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan	cowan@ccil.org
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