On 2013-02-01, Costello, Roger L. <[email protected]> wrote: > So why would one ever generate text in decomposed form (NFD)?
Text that I type is quite likely to be in decomposed (or at least not composed) form, because I find it a lot easier to have a few keystrokes for combining accents than to set up compose key sequences for all the possible composed characters. For example, ǂhèẽ-ǂhèẽ ǃn̥à̰ĩ-ǃn̥à̰ĩ was part of the title of a talk. Is there a composed form of à̰? I don't know, and don't want to! Much easier to do searches and other text processing on it, too. (The current dictionary project for this language uses NFD in its data files, too.) -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
