Peter Kirk <peterkirk at qaya dot org> wrote: >> Subprocesses within a closed system may be able to make certain >> assumptions for efficiency. Process B, for example, may know that >> its only source of input is Process A, which is guaranteed always to >> produce NFC. ... > > Does C9 actually allow this? Well, perhaps within a closed system, but > then standardisation and so Unicode is irrelevant to data transfer > between sub-processes within a closed system.
Within a closed system, Unicode text can be transformed in any way imaginable. As long as it comes out of the "black box" intact, there is no problem. > Outside a closed system, Process B's best assumption for efficiency > may be that Process A has *probably* normalised, and so it is worth > performing first a quick check before a full normalisation. ... using the algorithm (though not necessarily the exact code) provided in UAX #15. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
