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Re: bumming cycles out of parse_identifier()...
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- Subject: Re: bumming cycles out of parse_identifier()...
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:20:35 +0100 (BST)
- cc: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>, <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Well, (a) I think it's silly to allow \u09B6 and not the literal
> character U+09B6, and (b) even if we just do \u escapes we still have
> to canonicalize, because the scenario I described with
> combined/uncombined accents can still happen with \u escapes.
Do you have any examples (where different identifiers using only
characters allowed from the basic character set or Annex D are equivalent
under NFC)? In those cases I looked at, the combining accents didn't seem
to be included in Annex D where precomposed forms are available.
--
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk