[Python-Dev] PEP 393 Summer of Code Project

[Guido van Rossum]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Neil Hodgson <nyamatongwe at gmail.com> wrote:
> [...] some text drawing engines draw decomposed characters ("o"
> followed by " ̈" -> "ö") differently compared to their composite
> equivalents ("ö") and this may be perceived as better or worse. I'd
> like to offer an option to replace some decomposed characters with
> their composite equivalent before drawing but since other characters
> may look worse, I don't want to do a full normalization.

Isn't this an issue properly solved by various normal forms?

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)