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Re: Unicode normalization tools

• To: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: Re: Unicode normalization tools
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 15:27:00 -0700
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <20030605222256.GC29060@s...>
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John Cowan wrote:

>>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.

I disagree; I find that Unicode is unusually crystal-clear and 
programmer-friendly among standards.  Whenever I've wanted to do 
something specific (which admittedly hasn't up till now included 
normalization), I've poked around a bit and found what I needed 
somewhere in a combination of the online docs and Unicode-Data files, 
and had pretty good results just banging out the code.

-- 
Cheers, Tim Bray
         (ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)

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  • Re: Unicode normalization tools
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  • Re: Unicode normalization tools
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