Here's a summary of the responses so far: * Philippe Verdy and and Jill Ramonsky say YES, a compressor can normalize, because it knows it is operating on Unicode character data and can take advantage of Unicode properties.
* Peter Kirk and Mark Shoulson say NO, it can't, because all the compressor really knows about is the byte stream, so it must be preserved byte-for-byte. * I'm still not sure, but I'm leaning toward NO. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
