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Re: String Encodings and POSIX Commands



Douglas Davidson <email@hidden> wrote:

>No, I meant what I said.  "Canonical decomposition" is normalization
>form D.  See http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Essentials/
>SystemOverview/FileSystem/ File_Encodings_and_Fonts.html for more details.

What was the reason for this, given that NFC is the preferred format for
many things (such as the web)? NFD seems mainly to be wastefull and overly
complex, but I may be missing something here?



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would need MS Bob and the Talking Paperclip?   One thing is to give them
enough rope to hang themselves,  but a boobytrapped thermonuclear weapon
running on a rand(time) countdown... Is that really wise? - Me to MS rep.
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