From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Sat Dec 06 2003 - 14:24:29 EST
Peter Kirk <peterkirk at qaya dot org> wrote:
>> Subprocesses within a closed system may be able to make certain
>> assumptions for efficiency. Process B, for example, may know that
>> its only source of input is Process A, which is guaranteed always to
>> produce NFC. ...
>
> Does C9 actually allow this? Well, perhaps within a closed system, but
> then standardisation and so Unicode is irrelevant to data transfer
> between sub-processes within a closed system.
Within a closed system, Unicode text can be transformed in any way
imaginable. As long as it comes out of the "black box" intact, there is
no problem.
> Outside a closed system, Process B's best assumption for efficiency
> may be that Process A has *probably* normalised, and so it is worth
> performing first a quick check before a full normalisation.
... using the algorithm (though not necessarily the exact code) provided
in UAX #15.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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