Character normalization ?

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 03:50:39PM -0500, Gnome CVS User wrote:
> Log message:
> Mon Mar 25 15:46:54 2002  Owen Taylor  <otaylor redhat com>
> 
> * modules/basic/basic-*.c: Convert U+00A0 (NON BREAK SPACE)
> to U+0020 (SPACE)

  Hum, by the way, now that we have a decent internationalized
framework, one of the annoyances of Unicode is character normalization,
i.e. remapping sometimes sequences of Unicode chars to a single one.
The I18N working group at W3C is pushing hard for "early" normalization
[1] i.e. make sure that most of the APIs see only Normalized Content. 
  Can you tell me/us a bit on this issue ? Is there anything in place,
should we make any decision about this ? This can affect a number of things
like string searches and compare which otherwise are real pain.

Daniel

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod/#IDAAC0R

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