Re: Unicode and composition mappings

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

In a restricted sense, general-purpose composition is possible, namely
_canonical_ composition. It's routinely used when performing normalization;
see "Normalization Forms" in the Unicode standard. In particular, certain
normalization forms involve things like mapping a characters followed by a
combining diacritic mark into a precomposed character.

Is there simple-to-use software available that does normalizations?
The statement by IBM reads as if they provide such software.

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Helmut Richter
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