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Re: Unicode normalization tools

• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Subject: Re: Unicode normalization tools
• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 23:20:15 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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Simon St.Laurent scripsit:

> Is normalization itself that brutal?  It seems like it's just a lot of
> table lookups, not much more.  The problem I'm seeing is a lack of
> readily-accessible tables.

No, normalization checking (which is what's relevant, not normalization)
is not difficult -- it's basically two tables and some random logic.
There are things about Unicode that are tricky to get right, but this
isn't one of them.

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