iconv and combining characters

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Thu Jan 22 15:05:00 GMT 2004


Chris Heath <chris@heathens.co.nz> writes:

> Bruno,
>
>> Hi Chris,
>> 
>> > I noticed that iconv isn't able to convert UTF-8 containing combining
>> > characters into Latin1.  I really think that iconv should be able to do this.
>> 
>> Why? The preferred way of exchange of Unicode strings is in normalization
>> form C, see [1], [2].
>
> I agree with that.  But will everyone follow that rule?

MacOS X uses NFD throughout.  (If you have filenames in NFC and you import
them via NFS to MacOS X the Finder gets confused.)

Andreas.

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