[Python-3000] PEP: Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers
"Martin v. Löwis"
martin at v.loewis.de
Mon Jun 4 22:58:11 CEST 2007
>> Say you have a Latin-1-encoded source code. Is that in NFC or not?
>
> Doesn't that depend on whether they happened to ever write some of the
> combined characters (such as ö) using a two-character form like o¨?
No. Latin-1 does not support that form; the concept does not exist
in that encoding. When converting to an UCS representation, it's
the codec's choice to either produce a pre-composed or decomposed
form.
Regards,
Martin
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