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Unicode normalization

Unicode normalization

Posted Jun 2, 2006 6:11 UTC (Fri) by dvdeug (guest, #10998)
In reply to: Unicode normalization by tialaramex
Parent article: GNU grep's new features (Linux.com)

Unicode normalization may not be enough for localized searching, but it's the only _correct_ way to search Unicode text. LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E followed by COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT is the exact same thing as LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH ACUTE according to the Unicode standard, and a program that will match one and not the other is not conforming to the standard. It's not unreasonable to ask for grep to at least provide an option to conform to the standard and work the way that users expect? Only a character set geek will understand why those two items don't match, and only such a person should have to understand that.


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