On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 05:35:29AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>     For simplicity, all Unicode characters which are composites must
>     be decomposed maximally (this is normalization form KD in the
>     Unicode standard); 

This is excessive; there are many useful characters, like ℂℋℍℓ№ℤℨ²³,
that would be useful, but would are destroyed by KD (if someone uses
ℤ²ℨ, they don't expect to see Z2Z.)

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