Re: Unicode Normalisaton Optimisation Experiments

From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Thu Sep 25 2003 - 18:25:13 EDT

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    On 25/09/2003 14:25, Markus Scherer wrote:

    > Peter Kirk wrote:
    >
    >> On 25/09/2003 12:27, jon@spin.ie wrote:
    >>
    >>> It's not a reordering per se, as the first combining character is
    >>> given the first "opportunity" to combine.
    >>>
    >>
    >> Thanks for the clarification.
    >
    >
    > In other words, yes, Unicode's NFC does perform "discontiguous
    > composition". Some things might be easier if only contiguous
    > composition were used, but the current definition does give you the
    > shortest strings.

    And this current definition cannot be changed because of the stability
    policy, right?

    >
    > See also http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn5/#FCC (not a normative
    > Unicode document).
    >
    > markus
    >
    >
    Thanks. 

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