Re: Does Unicode 4.1 change NFC?

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Sun Apr 03 2005 - 15:28:52 CST

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    Philippe Verdy <verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr> wrote:

    >> Yes. New CJK compatibility ideographs U+FA70..U+FAD9 have canonical
    >> decompositions into single characters. For example NFC(U+FACF) =
    >> U+2284A (for the first time a BMP character is normalized to
    >> something outside BMP).
    >
    > Isn't that against Unicode statibility? Shouldn't it have been the
    > reverse, keeping U+FACF stable and normalizing U+2284A to U+FACF to
    > keep the compatibility? If this was added because of a past error,
    > then this MUST be urgently documented.

    They're new characters, Philippe. They weren't encoded until 4.1.

    -Doug Ewell
     Fullerton, California
     http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/



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