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Re: Unicode normalization tools

• To: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Subject: Re: Unicode normalization tools
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 18:22:56 -0400
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Tim Bray scripsit:

> I've looked at ICU a couple of times and been horrified by the sheer 
> volume and the learning curve, and both times decided it was quicker and 
> safer to code up whatever-it-was myself.

That works if you have the utmost confidence in your personal ability to
get it right.  For most programmers, that's a dangerous attitude to take
around the guts of Unicode.

-- 
Knowledge studies others / Wisdom is self-known;      John Cowan
Muscle masters brothers / Self-mastery is bone;       jcowan@r...
Content need never borrow / Ambition wanders blind;   www.ccil.org/~cowan
Vitality cleaves to the marrow / Leaving death behind.    --Tao 33 (Bynner)

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