From: Marcel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:53:47 +0200
Theodore!
What does normalisation in context to Unicode mean?
If you don't know, you probably don't need my code ;)
Basically, normalisation means that each character is put into "the
proper format" for that character.
The problem with Unicode, is that a character can have multiple
representations. It can be composed or decomposed, and the accents
can be in different orders.
So if I search for a string "é", maybe this string isn't found in a
text that really *does* contain the "é", because the character is
stored differently in the text from the search query.
Normalisation solves this, by making sure that every character has
only 1 correct form, and it's always in that form.
It's the sort of thing that can usually be left until you find a
problem :)
I think one or two users needed this code before, when they were
copying files with European letters in them, across platform, because
MS stores their letters in a different format than Apple does. When
they had that problem, it was time to use my code ;P
Best,
Marcel
On 14.06.2006, at 16:13, Theodore H. Smith wrote:
If anyone needs Unicode normalisation
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http://elfdata.com/plugin/
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