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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 05:13:49 -0400
Subject: Unicode normalization forms
From: gwynne@skytag.com (Gwynne)

Every time I see the Unicode support in PHP 6 getting better, I like  
it more. But I have a question related to a problem I recently had to  
solve with an external script in my code: Will there be any way to  
access different normalization forms from inside PHP? After a great  
deal of research and attempting various methods, I ended up using a  
hacked version of an ancient Perl script from W3C to get normalized  
Unicode, and I'm hoping there'll be something better in the offing. I  
don't have the Unicode skill to write a normalization routine as  
either PHP or a PHP extension, not to mention I don't want to haul  
around that giant datafile of decompositions :).

-- Gwynne, Daughter of the Code
"This whole world is an asylum for the incurable."