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RE: filename and normalization
>You probably want to see two HYPHEN-MINUS characters, which are in the
>Postscript standard fonts only provided by Courier. Attempting to
output
>a HYPHEN-MINUS character in a non-typewriter font should perhaps lead
to
>warning messages for the author.
But what if you LIKE the HYPEN-MINUS-DASH character? Am I the only
person here who doesnt care for different length dashes?
>That's what 'normalization' is for. It's not a
>one-way street(from user input to system) but a two-way street.
For web pages and Word Processor documents, sure it makes sense
to just show them. For file-system listings, URL's, identifiers,
etc, I think it makes more sense to only show them cleanly if
they are locally normal, and to use escape sequences otherwise.
But do you think its preferable for tools such as the linker,
the file-system API, etc to all do internal normalization?
What constitutes normal form may change over time...
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