>> For example, for filenames, OSX will encode an accented Roman
>> letter one way, while for filenames Windows will encode it the
>> other way. These kind of confusions are totally expected, if
>> Unicode will allow more than one way to encode the same
>> character.
>
> Perhaps a stray newsfeed routed via Alpha Centauri?
> This is *very* old news, indeed.
I'm new to this, though.
>> This means that matching algorithm's won't work, because the
>> characters are different!
>>
>> Will there be some kind of recommendation of which to avoid?
>> Will the Unicode consortium make a standard to say that one of
>> these encodings is strongly not recommended, and in fact
>> depreciated?
>
> UAX #15: Unicode Normalization Forms
>
> http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr15/
Thanks.
> And it is up to an implementation to specify which normalization
> form it uses.
>
> By the way, we don't depreciate Unicode encodings -- we appreciate
> them. ;-)
Thats a shame. Simplicity is wonderful.
-- Theodore H. Smith - Macintosh Consultant / Contractor. My website: <www.elfdata.com/>
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