Unicode normalisation [was Re: [beginner] What's wrong?]

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>:

> But when you get down to fundamentals, character sets and alphabets have
> always blurred the line between presentation and meaning. W ("double-u")
> was, once upon a time, UU

But as every Finnish-speaker now knows, "w" is only an old-fashioned
typographic variant of the glyph "v". We still have people who write
"Wirtanen" or "Waltari" to make their last names look respectable and
19th-centrury-ish.


Marko