[Python-Dev] PEP 393 Summer of Code Project
Hagen Fürstenau
hagen at zhuliguan.net
Thu Sep 1 03:27:28 CEST 2011
>> [...] 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?
I think he's rather describing the need for custom "abnormal forms".
- Hagen
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