Canonical Equivalences
- Examples: Precomposed (å) vs. decomposed (a°); singletons (Å from
Latin-1 vs. Ångstrom)
- Equivalent in all cases (Unicode conformance: not allowed to expect them
to be distinguished)
- Issue of how to deal with there turned up in W3C (Requirements Document)
- W3C worked together with Unicode consortium to find a widely applicable
solution
- How to normalize: Unicode Normalization Form C (NFC) [Unicode TR
#15]
- When to normalize: Early Uniform Normalization (draft-duerst-i18n-norm-03.txt,
W3C Character Model
WD)
