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Re: filename and normalization (was gcc identifiers)



On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:27:40PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 04:03:38PM +0100, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> > Well, users should not expect these two sequences to be identical,
> > they are not, according to ISO/IEC 10646.
> 
> Users expect that "Ö" == "Ö", and don't know or care about Unicode, and
> that's reasonable.

Well, it is not equal if you code it differently. One is a letter 
and the other is a letter with some special combining accent.
They do not compare equal either, at the most detailed level
according to ISO/IEC 14651- the ISO sorting standard.

Kind regards
keld
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