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Re: iconv and combining characters
Chris Heath <chris@heathens.co.nz> writes:
> Bruno,
>
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> > I noticed that iconv isn't able to convert UTF-8 containing combining
>> > characters into Latin1. I really think that iconv should be able to do this.
>>
>> Why? The preferred way of exchange of Unicode strings is in normalization
>> form C, see [1], [2].
>
> I agree with that. But will everyone follow that rule?
MacOS X uses NFD throughout. (If you have filenames in NFC and you import
them via NFS to MacOS X the Finder gets confused.)
Andreas.
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