Peter Kirk scripsit:

> Is this actually a conformance requirement? I thought I understood the 
> following: A rendering engine which fails to render canonical 
> equivalents identically, or fails to render certain orders sensibly, is 
> not doing what the Unicode standard tells it that it must do. But it is 
> not technically non-conformant because the statement that it must render 
> canonical equivalents identically is not in a conformance clause. This 
> implies that software producers who produce rendering engines which are 
> deficient in this way can still claim conformance to Unicode. This is an 
> ambiguity which, in my opinion, should be resolved in a future edition 
> of the standard.

C9 says:

A process shall not assume that the interpretations of two canonical-equivalent
character sequences are distinct.

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