The simple way is ignore everything after the first point 7. Your code WILL be broken but so is everyone else's code. 99% of programmers don't know much about e

The simple way is ignore everything after the first point 7. Your code WILL be broken but so is everyone else's code. 99% of programmers don't know much about encodings I don't expect them to start learning about the issues with unicode's normalization and collation algorithms. On most of those issues being the only one that gets it right is either pointless or retroactively wrong.