[Python-3000] PEP 3131 normalization forms

Ka-Ping Yee python at zesty.ca
Sat May 26 02:14:47 CEST 2007


On Sat, 26 May 2007, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
> > NFKC might be a better choice than NFC for normalizing identifiers.
> > Do we really want "find()" (with the fi-ligature) and "find()"
> > (without the fi-ligature) to be two different functions?\
>
> Do we really want to allow ligatures at all?

If we require identifiers in source code to be in NFKC, I believe
there won't be any ligatures.  The NFKC for the "fi" ligature is the
two-letter sequence "fi".


-- ?!ng


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