From: Jane Liu (xjliu_ca@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Apr 25 2003 - 16:41:25 EDT
Hi Mark,
Do you know the situation on UNIX systems such as Solaris, HP-UX and
especially the IBM AIX, when I set the environment to a UTF-8 locale
(setenv LANG xxx_xx.utf8) do they handle the normalization by
default?
Thanks.
--- Mark Davis <mark.davis@jtcsv.com> wrote:
> 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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