Re: Is it roundtripping or transfer-encoding

From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Wed Dec 22 2004 - 05:59:27 CST

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    On 22/12/2004 07:07, Doug Ewell wrote:

    >Philippe Verdy <verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr> wrote:
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    >>Unicode defines only 4 *standard* normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC,
    >>NFKD), but other *non-standard* normalization forms are possible:
    >>
    >>
    >
    >But should not be used. It can be tricky enough getting the four
    >standard ones right as it is.
    >
    >
    >
    There are very good reasons for using "non-standard normalisation forms"
    when the standard ones are irretrievably broken, as for pointed Hebrew
    which simply cannot be rendered unless ordered or reordered in a
    non-standard way. 

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