Re: [xsl] Getting the Base Character of Character with Diacritic

["Colin Adams" <colinpauladams@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I suspect the requirement for NFC is for compatibility with Latin-1.

Maybe there are clever ways of performing NFC without actually performing a 
full de-composition.

> From: Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>

> Colin Adams wrote:
> > as the  C forms consist of de-composition followed by composition.
> > So it would be strange to implement NFC, and not implement NFD.
>
> I see. I never looked at it that way. I always thought that de-composition 
> was the hard way, and never realized that you actually needed to de-compose 
> before you can compose. But come to think of it, it sounds rather logical.
>
> Hmm, that sounds counter-intuitive towards the fact that the W3C committee 
> for XPath decided that only NFC be mandatory. In other words: it sounds 
> kind only to make one normalization form mandatory, but in fact they impose 
> both NFD and NFC, so why not make both mandatory anyway?
>
> -- Abel

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