* Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
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>When talking about mapping of fullwidth and halfwidth characters
>(e.g., U+FF01 to U+0021), RFC 5895 uses the term "decomposition mappings":
>
>   2.  Fullwidth and halfwidth characters (those defined with
>       Decomposition Types <wide> and <narrow>) are mapped to their
>       decomposition mappings as shown in the Unicode character
>       database.
>
>In the PRECIS documents, we somehow used the term "decomposition
>equivalents":
>
>   ... width mapping
>   is in general RECOMMENDED because allowing fullwidth and halfwidth
>   characters to remain unmapped to their decomposition equivalents
>   would violate the principle of least user surprise.
>
>The Unicode Standard seems to use the term "compatibility variants",
>e.g., consider the following text in Chapter 5:

Quick usability check: if the "decomposition mapping" of X is `NFD(X)`
then the Unicode term is the least obvious and should be avoided. If
it's something else entirely, both "decomposition" terms are bad.
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