Re: Application that displays CJK text in Normalization Form D

From: Kent Karlsson (kent.karlsson14@telia.com)
Date: Mon Nov 15 2010 - 17:22:33 CST

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    Den 2010-11-15 23:53, skrev "Doug Ewell" <doug@ewellic.org>:

    >> When I type the ideograph 漢 (U+FA47) into BabelPad, highlight it, and
    >> then click the button labeled "Normalize to NFC", the character
    >> becomes 漢 (U+6F22). Does BabelPad not conform to the Unicode Standard
    >> in this case? Is this not truly Unicode normalization?
    >
    > Crap. Yes, Ken and BabelPad are right. Some ideographs do have
    > singleton mappings and can thus be different between NFD and NFC.

    No, both NFD and NFC will map U+FA47 to U+6F22; singleton canonical
    mappings are not "reversed" in the composition phase of transforming to NFC.

        /Kent K

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