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From:
Zefram
Date:
December 25, 2015 03:21
Subject:
Re: Obsolete text in utf8.pm
Message ID:
20151225032129.GF7818@fysh.org
demerphq wrote:
>       Is it the one where combining characters are replaced with
>canonical codepoints?

Basically, yes.  NFC = Composed: precomposed characters are used
as much as possible.  NFD = Decomposed: precomposed characters are
entirely avoided in favour of separate base and combining characters.
There's also NFKC and NFKD, which perform compatibility mappings and
then either Compose or Decompose.

-zefram
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