On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2012-05-18 12:51, Ben Companjen wrote:
>> Compare: Hélène (copied from OL) and Hélène (typed myself)
>
> Some people replied that they didn't see any difference, and
> that's the problem.

I'd argue that there are (at least) two problems: 1) that byte
codes/codepoints aren't being normalized effectively and 2) rendering
systems are rendering improperly.

In my opinion, any reasonable rendering system should render the byte
codes for base character plus combining accent *exactly* the same as
the precombined form.

> Wikipedia would always prefer the latter.

I think "latter" here is NFC which we've already discussed, but I
don't understand the reference to Wikipedia.

> ... the combining marks looked ugly in my browser.

That just means that you've got a buggy browser and/or rendering
subsystem for your operating system.  It doesn't have anything to do
with the buggy underlying characters.

Tom
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