Re: Unicode Normalization on MS-Windows

ICU does not normalize automatically; it provides the tools for normalizing as 
you wish. If you were
accessing files on a Windows system, you (presumeably) wouldn't want to.

Märk Davis
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Persson" <alsjebegrijptwatikbedoel@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Michael (michka) Kaplan" <michka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <unicode@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 12:19
Subject: Re: Unicode Normalization on MS-Windows


> Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote:
>
> >>I don't think
> >>simply turn off the normalization process in the ICU would be a good
> >>idea though, however, if I keep to use ICU to normalize everything in
> >>my application, then I will possible run into some troubles when
> >>dealing with the Windows system ...
> >>
> >>
> >How is that trouble, precisely? Could you explain this a bit more fully?
> >
> >
> Well, let's say that you want to open a file named U+FA19, but the
> normalisation only allows you to open files called U+795E, wouldn't that
> be a problem?
>
> Stefan
>
>
>