Andrew Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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> Normalization Form C means "fully composed"
> characters

Well, not always (Unicode 3.2), but you're basically right.

> - I think fonts are currently rare that
> would support all characters we need fully composed.

Then the renderer should superimpose glyphs. Exactly how the
abstract characters are written (pre- or decomposed) isn't
important. E.g. if a font doesn't have an '�' glyph, but an 'a'
and a '�' glyph, the '�' character could be displayed by
superimposing these two glyphs.

> I would think at this stage that a "compatibility"
> normalization would be more suitable at this early
> stage

No, compatibility normalization *loses* important information.

-- 
Karl Ove Hufthammer

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