Re: encodings and cross references

>     However it seems that there are more than one decomposition.
>
> Perhaps that UAX#15 or whatever it was will be helpful.

I don't like this document, I find it very hard to read. However I found in
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html
at
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#ucsutf
an explanation I understood, now I even understand the standard...

I propose Normalization Form C for the characters (if a combined character
exists it is used, otherwise the decomposed character is used). Normalization
Forms D could be possible too, but I have 3 (weak) arguments in favor of
Normalization Form C:

- it is what is preferred in Linux and www. Thus it should be nearer with
  unicode which we would output for real (I will use that form for texi2html,
  for example, otherwise mozilla doesn't understand it).
- it avoids ucs level 2 whenever possible.

There is a perl module that does normalization. I haven't found such a thing
for C, but I believe it exists or it will exist soon.

Pat
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