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You don't, there is only one unicode representation of those characters.
by Asooka 10y ago
You don't, there is only one unicode representation of those characters.
- sametmax 10y agoSo what does mac do with those ?
- icebraining 10y agoUse that representation? The problem only happens when there is more than one way to represent the same text.
- sametmax 10y agoOk
- huxley 10y agoInterestingly that created its own annoyances for some since normalization occurs at a different stage. Unicode and UTF-8 unify many Traditional & Simplified Chinese Characters as well as Japanese Kanji and Korean Hanja. There were some extremely angry reactions to Han Character Unification[1], though efforts have been made to overcome many of the initial complaints. [1] "Why Unicode Won’t Work on the Internet: Linguistic, Political, and Technical Limitations" http://www.hastingsresearch.com/net/04-unicode-limitations.shtml http://www.hastingsresearch.com/net/04-unicode-limitations.s...
- jrochkind1 10y agoI don't believe that's literally true, some all legal and correct Japanese unicode sequences will be transformed under at least some of the unicode normalization forms, no?
- srssays 10y agoNot the case for Arabic. There's hundreds of ligature code points, for example ﰻ (kl), ﷵ (ṣl'm) and ﷳ (akbr). And of course ﷽