Re: accents

[Andreas Schwab]

Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> writes:

> On 5/10/11 9:17 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
>> In yours, however, it is 0x65 0xcc 0x81 which is U+0065 LATIN SMALL
>> LETTER E followed by U+0301 COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT.
>
> That's not valid UTF-8, since UTF-8 requires that the shortest sequence
> be used to encode a character.

0x65 0xcc 0x81 is the correct UTF-8 encoding for the two character
sequence U+0065 U+0301.

> The general problem with combining
> characters still exists (the one in the message I referenced in an
> earlier reply), but this case has more to do with Mac OS X and its use
> of both precomposed and decomposed UTF-8 than anything.

There is no such thing as "precomposed UTF-8" and "decomposed UTF-8".
UTF-8 is an encoding of Unicode, and both NFD and NFC are valid forms of
Unicode.

Andreas.

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