Re: [unicode] Text in composed normalized form is king, right? Does anyone generate text in decomposed normalized form?

Hi,

> Do any programming languages output text in NFD? Does Java? Python? C#? Perl? JavaScript?

It might not be an example you want, recent Mac OS X stores
the filenames in NFD-derived encoding.
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#qa/qa1173/_index.html

Regards,
mpsuzuki

Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> The W3C recommends [1] text sent out over the Internet be in Normalized Form C (NFC):
>
> This document therefore chooses NFC as the
> base for Web-related early normalization.
>
> So why would one ever generate text in decomposed form (NFD)?
>
> Do any programming languages output text in NFD? Does Java? Python? C#? Perl? JavaScript?
>
> Do any tools produce text in NFD?
>
> Should I assume that any text my applications receive will always be normalized to NFC form?
>
> Is NFD dead?
>
> /Roger
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod-norm/#sec-ChoiceNFC
>
>
Received on Fri Feb 01 2013 - 08:41:38 CST