[sword-devel] Re: Westcott-Hort

[Martin Gruner]

Would the filter that turns off greek accents also turn off the accents from 
pre-composed characters?

Martin

Am Dienstag, 6. April 2004 05:09 schrieb Troy A. Griffitts:
> I'm not sure I understand all of this, but practically, it's much less
> important to speedily process these characters when displaying, versus
> searching.  I would personally like decomposed characters stored for
> less processing during a scan of the text.  But you guys are the experts.
>
> 	-Troy.
>
> Chris Little wrote:
> > Costas I. Stergiou wrote:
> >> Actually, the NFC standard is all about precomposed chars. All the
> >> extended
> >> greek chars are exactly this: the (pre-composed) greek letters with the
> >> diacriticals. I use icu4j for all my tests & conversions and when
> >> asking to take
> >> a text and convert it to NFC it does use the extended greek chars. So,
> >> my almost certain answer, is yes (extended greek is NFC)
> >
> > Costas,
> >
> > It sounds like you know what you're doing.  My only concern was that the
> >   Greek Extended area was categorized as compatability or presentation,
> > in which case they might not be canonically equivalent to decomposed
> > codepoint sequences.  But if you're doing NFC normalization already,
> > then obviously they are.
> >
> > --Chris
> >
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