Hi, > Do any programming languages output text in NFD? Does Java? Python? C#? Perl? > JavaScript?
It might not be an example you want, recent Mac OS X stores the filenames in NFD-derived encoding. http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#qa/qa1173/_index.html Regards, mpsuzuki Costello, Roger L. wrote: > Hi Folks, > > The W3C recommends [1] text sent out over the Internet be in Normalized Form > C (NFC): > > This document therefore chooses NFC as the > base for Web-related early normalization. > > So why would one ever generate text in decomposed form (NFD)? > > Do any programming languages output text in NFD? Does Java? Python? C#? Perl? > JavaScript? > > Do any tools produce text in NFD? > > Should I assume that any text my applications receive will always be > normalized to NFC form? > > Is NFD dead? > > /Roger > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod-norm/#sec-ChoiceNFC > >

