Re: Unicode Normalization on MS-Windows

From: Mark Davis (mark.davis@jtcsv.com)
Date: Fri Apr 25 2003 - 15:46:57 EDT

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    ICU does not normalize automatically; it provides the tools for normalizing as you wish. If you were
    accessing files on a Windows system, you (presumeably) wouldn't want to.

    Märk Davis
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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Stefan Persson" <alsjebegrijptwatikbedoel@yahoo.se>
    To: "Michael (michka) Kaplan" <michka@trigeminal.com>
    Cc: <unicode@unicode.org>
    Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 12:19
    Subject: Re: Unicode Normalization on MS-Windows

    > Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote:
    >
    > >>I don't think
    > >>simply turn off the normalization process in the ICU would be a good
    > >>idea though, however, if I keep to use ICU to normalize everything in
    > >>my application, then I will possible run into some troubles when
    > >>dealing with the Windows system ...
    > >>
    > >>
    > >How is that trouble, precisely? Could you explain this a bit more fully?
    > >
    > >
    > Well, let's say that you want to open a file named U+FA19, but the
    > normalisation only allows you to open files called U+795E, wouldn't that
    > be a problem?
    >
    > Stefan
    >
    >
    >



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