Re: Looking for a C library that converts UTF-8 strings from their decomposed to pre-composed form

From: Eric Muller (emuller@adobe.com)
Date: Mon Nov 08 2004 - 23:28:48 CST

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Deborah Goldsmith wrote:

> It's worth pointing out that there is no such thing as "precomposed
> Unicode". Normalization form C (NFC) could be called "as precomposed
> as possible." There are some sequences of Unicode that can only be
> expressed using combining marks.
>
As well as single (precomposed) characters which have a sequence of more
than one character as their NFC form. So NFC is not even "as precomposed
as possible".

Eric.

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