I would say that a compressor can normalize, if (a) when decompressing it produces NFC, and (b) it advertises that it normalizes.
Mark __________________________________ http://www.macchiato.com â ààààààààààààààààààààà â ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Ewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Unicode Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "UnicoRe Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tue, 2003 Nov 25 11:08 Subject: Re: Compression through normalization > 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/ > > > > >
