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Canonical Decomposition is not the form of strings used by Wikibase (Wikibase uses Canonical Composition), and it is not usually the form in which user input is received ([some browsers][1](https://stackoverflow.com/a/11190012) explicitly normalize inputs to Canonical Composition, and other input is also usually in a normalized form), so if we only Decompose one half of the values when comparing them, we will usually end up reporting a mismatch. This manifests itself as an error (“base statement not found”) when attempting to add a statement with qualifiers whose value contains
[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11190012
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The fix for this is simple: normalize both sides when comparing strings. In that case, it also doesn’t matter which normalization form we use.[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11190012
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