On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Costello, Roger L. <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Can the combining diacritical marks combine with any base character?
Yes. > If yes, wouldn't normalizing this: > > <comment>(U+0303) > > to NFC result in converting the XML start tag into non-well-formed XML? (It > is not well-formed because there is no longer a '>' character after the tag > name; rather, there is a '>' character with a tilde on top.) Normalizing it to NFC would change nothing, since there's no precomposed '>' + diacritic characters. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero.

