Re:I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode
by masklinn on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @06:14PM
(#9221968)
> But I wouldn't need to and the result is a single codepoint again..
Doesn't have to be though, it'd be perfectly correct for an IME to generate multiple codepoints. IIRC, that's what you'd get if you typed those in a filename on OSX then asked for the native file path, as HFS+ stores filenames in NFD. Meanwhile Safari does (used to do?) the opposite, text is automatically NFC'd before sending. Things get interesting when you don't expect it and don't do unicode-equivalent comparisons.
Doesn't have to be though, it'd be perfectly correct for an IME to generate multiple codepoints. IIRC, that's what you'd get if you typed those in a filename on OSX then asked for the native file path, as HFS+ stores filenames in NFD. Meanwhile Safari does (used to do?) the opposite, text is automatically NFC'd before sending. Things get interesting when you don't expect it and don't do unicode-equivalent comparisons.