[issue1734234] Fast path for unicodedata.normalize()

[Virgil Dupras]

Virgil Dupras added the comment:

It's a very interesting patch. I wonder why it fell into oblivion. stuff 
like "unicode.normalize('NFC', u'\xe9')" was more than twice as fast for 
me.

Making sure that all unicode is normalized can be a bottleneck in a lot 
of applications (it somewhat is in my apps).

The downside is that it makes test_codecs and test_unicode_file fail.

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