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Re: MARC and Unicode normalization forms

Simon Spero
Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:15:56 -0700

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Karen Coyle <kco...@kcoyle.net> wrote:

> Rebecca,
>
> Thank you so much for looking into this. As I understand the Unicode normal
> forms, it's not that one of them is more "correct" than others, it's a
> matter of circumstance and your particular needs. It does look like it would
> be good for program developers to document what form their program outputs
> in an effort to "save the time of the user."


The W3C recommends NFC: http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod-norm/#sec-ChoiceNFC

As does "HOWTO Avoid Being Called a Bozo When Producing
XML<http://hsivonen.iki.fi/producing-xml/#nfc>"
(cited from: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think35.html)