Re: Normalisation and matching

Adam M. Costello wrote:


>
>That's an argument for normalizing UCS text before displaying it.  That
>doesn't imply that UCS text should be normalized any earlier than
>that.  Deferring normalization until it's really necessary would allow
>applications with non-buggy display systems (and applications that don't
>display the address at all) to opt out of the normalization and save
>that cost.

Well, why not allow UTF-8 encoding of ASCII and over long sequences?
That is no problem at all, you just normalise when you need it.

From what I have heard the reasons for me wanting normalised UCS is the same
as people wanting normalised UTF-8.

   Dan